BOLD PREDICTION: PS5 and PS5D to be $399 and $349 respectively

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Seece said:

They really don't need to price it at $399. Each gen Sony and MS seem to swap places in completely fucking up and squandering their good will. All Sony has to do is price at $499 and keep delivering exclusives and they'll win hands down.

The difference here is the company with bad will has to make up for it at the end of the generation, as Sony did last generation--they even edged out in sales. Meanwhile, Xbox has gone this whole generation with comparitively poor sales and no true exclusives, and very few console exclusives. Not only that, but they're going into the next generation already making decisions in the same vain as this generation. What have they done to earn the trust of consumers so far? It was only a couple of short months ago that a promise of "a series of mic drop moments" or whatever cringe marketing crap they've come up with. And then Halo Infinite. The most recent announcement with the Series S isn't bad, but it honestly comes across as sort of desperate and I kind of miss actual stubstance being a selling point than feeling like I'm being bribed to buy a console.