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shikamaru317 said:

trunkswd said:

I do think Xbox needs two consoles next generation, but have the weaker one still decently powered. So the cheaper one is say $500 or $600 and have the ultra powerful one cost $1,000 or whatever makes sense given the specs.

Why do I say the cheaper one should be $500 or $600? The Series S is underpowered and that was $300 at launch and sold at a decent loss. At the higher price it will be more inline of having a Series X and a Series X Pro, rather than a Series S and Series X. If that makes sense. 

Yeah, they probably should release a weaker system. If the rumors about the main Project Helix system being a $1000+ system turn out to be true, that just isn't a mass marker product, that is a system for high-end gamers only. All signs point to gaming spend slowing in recent years, now just isn't the right time to be releasing a $1000+ model as your only option on the market.

Release a 2nd system at something like $600, with specs like 30-40% below the high-end Helix model. Based on the PS6 specs (20-30% below Helix) that have leaked for a reported $700-800, at $600 Xbox should be able to come in only slightly below the PS6 specs on a lower end system with a lower price tag than PS6. Just make sure there is nothing limiting the ability to port to it, have the same CPU in both consoles just like on Series S and X, but this time have the same amount of RAM on the lower-end model to make porting easier, same amount but slower clock speed on RAM, same CPU but lower clock speed, and a weaker GPU. The high end Helix model seems to be designed to run games with ray tracing or path tracing, with a huge leap in RT performance over Series X, make the lower end model focused on running games at mostly the same graphics setting as the high end model, but with RT off.

I do wonder how more much powerful than the Xbox Series X a console at $600 would be considering the Series X is already $600. But the plus side would be dropping the Series S for development.