JRPGfan said:
firebush03 said:
I do not see any possible way for XBSXS to surpass 40mil. The price hikes have ended any chance of this. How can a system seeing massive YoY drops  that is currently selling on par with Wii U  manage to cobble up 6.7mil more systems? Well…unless Sony does a price hike on their system. (Though even that wouldn’t do much to help XBSXS specifically with the launch of GTAVI. Sony now has the economical advantage.)
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Cerny is a smart dude.
The fact that the PS5 was much cheaper to make than the XSX is now paying off.
Even if on paper the series X was like ~20% higher, in terms of actual theoretical performance it didn't really show in games most of the time.
There is were perhaps saving like +50$ on BOM making the device is paying off in spades.
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MS's intention was for the XBSS to be the competitor to the PS5 and have the XBSX as a luxury high end alternative. Exactly the same as Xbone - PS4 and Xbone X to PS4 Pro. Problem is, is that the XBSS backfired horribly and it never really qualified as a "next gen" in people's eyes. It just isn't very popular or in demand regardless of how cheap they made it. The only competitor they had left to PS5 was XBSX but that console was never intended to compete with PS5 and if they priced it the same as PS5 they'd be losing a boat load of money
