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EricHiggin on 08 November 2021
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scrapking said:
EricHiggin said:

[...] The question would be how does MS fix the fact that they've been marketing XBSS as 1440p this entire time?

I don't see the point in upgrading the existing models. Price cuts asap is more important, but won't happen until after the chip shortage is over. If they're not entirely happy with the line up and feel there's gaps, then fill them with more options.

I'd also assume there's got to be more than a few unusable XBSX chips like the PS5 chips. Some of those unusable PS5 chips are being put in certain third party PC's now so they don't go to waste, so I don't know why MS couldn't also use the poor XBSX chips in an XBSE.

I actually agree with not having a system in-between "S" and "X".  For most people I think a Series S is 80% of the experience of the Series X, especially when viewed across the room, and especially on a less than huge TV.  But the rumours are the rumours, so I approached them as I heard them.  :)

Given that the Series S was promoted as a 1440p@30 (at best) machine, if they do create an in-between SKU they could promote it as a 1440p@60 or 1440p@120 machine.  But I wouldn't encourage that, personally.  As others have said, just keep cost-reducing and/or shrinking and/or adding storage to the Series S.

I do to, but it depends on what was being asked based on what MS and its customers want. If they're saying seems like they may want more performance overall in the XBSS, then adding a $400 SKU makes sense. If they don't care about performance much, then ya, price reduction is definitely priority.

With the chip shortage making it unlikely price drops will come anytime soon, then best bet when it comes to the clear storage concern, is bundle more storage however MS wants to do it. There's plenty of ways they could, but the most important would be to keep the cost below $400 because a direct price comparison with PS5 DE wouldn't play out well for an XBSS storage bundle. An XBSS + 512GB EXP SSD bundle for $379 would be intriguing for example.



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