SvennoJ said:
Imaginedvl said:
I think a lot of what you are saying makes sense. Esp. the fact that while the Series X is a bit more powerful on paper, it is not universally better in every aspect.
The bold part thought is weird to me :) Maybe I misunderstood you, but you are basically saying that for Microsoft to "close the gap" with whatever Sony will come out for the PS6, they have to spend more money to make the PU capable of doing the same thing? Are you assuming that Microsoft cannot simply use the same base as Sony, and if they put more money into it, it will simply be better? In short, you seem to believe that if Microsoft spends the same money as Sony on their hardware, it cannot be as good or better than whatever Sony will come out with. I find this weird :)
No fanboyism here, don't get me wrong. But if you look at it the other way around, Sony spent a truckload of money on the PS3, and in the end, it was the same scenario as with the Xbox Series X - PlayStation 5, just reversed. I just found your last statement equivalent to: "Whatever Sony does, if Microsoft wants to equal it, their solution needs to cost a hundred more"... |
If the next XBox has dual boot or full Windows support, that's an extra cost.
MS could eat that cost of course but the official MS site sells Windows 11 for $139.
Also economy of scale comes into effect and Sony can offset the price by recouping tarifs from other countries as they're probably doing now.
Maybe MS can license the PS6 HW, slap an XBox sticker and Windows 11 Home on it and sell it as an XBox PC ;)
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I hadn't even thought of that part.
Their core business is selling Windows and products related to it.
I'm sure OEM when they sell a PC give MS a small amount of $ for windows.
If your now doing PCs, and those sales take off, that's then millions of those small cuts they would normally get from OEM's they wont be getting.
(assuming people that buy a xbox pc, don't also invest in multiple other PCs afterwards, as that is part of the "value" aspects a Xbox PC would bring as a 2-in-1 device)
