| DonFerrari said: I have said that MS strategy of cheaper and most powerful could leave a big opening for Sony to come in the middle and give the most conscious choice with the best balance of cost and benefits. With Series S serving to anchor PS5 (now discless, because when I started saying this like 6 months ago there was no rumour of discless PS5) and make it even more attractive. |
Exactly. Thats the same point I am making.
If this was what MS was going to do all along, they should have put the XSS at the forefront of all their marketing. Been pushing the narrative that upscaled 1440p to 4K is ideal for next-gen and that you get into next-gen at a lower price of $299. They should have been silent on anything teraflop related as they have been with the XSS. And still pushed their SSD talk.
Then around this time, after the PS5 has been revealed, boom. Make an announcement for your 12TF premium console. And market it as such, a premium console.
But now, what they have done is push power to the forefront of every next-gen gamers' head. They have sold that narrative. Only to turn around and also have the weakest console of all the next-gen offerings. Which literally is like them saying, "yeah, you know that power thing we have been saying? well, its no real that important".
And just like that, the PS5 which basically has just the one spec (outside that one has a disc drive and the other doesn't), just suddenly starts looking better than it really is.
And as always, as is always the case, the real price battle wil always be fought amongst the most budget-friendly hardware. In this case, that is the $299 XSS vs the $399 PS5D. (well, unless of course the PS5D is going to b $449, but I really am leaving towards PS5D being $399 and the PS5 being $449.), and if that is the case, I expect MS o try and match the $449 PS5 price with the XSX, I think that is what this whole price chess thing they have been doing has always been about.
