I highly doubt MS will launch the Anaconda at a price over 499.  The reason is that at 599 or even 549, the Anaconda would have to be doing way more than just being the stronger console.  MS would have to combat Sony market and mind share which is huge at this point.  Just having the more powerful console will not make a dent if the games doesn't look an order above what the PS5 can deliver.  MS would have to be able to run all 3rd party games like 60FPS while Sony could only do 30.  It would need to be on that order of scale to launch at 550 to 599.

Personally I believe the 499 is the price point if Anaconda is a beast but then again MS may be on some other stuff and who knows.  I know they want to get their PC and Xbox divisions in line so maybe Anaconda will be closure to a PC then console and it will be on a totally different path.

I believe we get way to much pent up on the TF numbers.  TF is only just a baseline in performance and not all TF equal the same thing when it comes to efficiently using every aspect of a piece of hardware.  I would say whichever system removes the most bottlenecks will come out as being the most powerful not necessarily how much TF each one has.  With out knowing how MS is building either Lockhart and Anaconda, we truly do not know if the 4TF Lockhart will make the 6TF X1X look slow and be able to compete successfully with the PS5 and it bigger brother.  Should be interesting to see how MS and Sony systems turn out once we can get true specs for each.

Well about 31% of US households own a 4k TV and last year 4K TVs made up 4/10th of all TV purchases. Within the first few years of next gen 1080p will become irrelevant.

I believe people forget that MS consoles has the same tech to do the upscaling to 4K just like the PS4 pro does.  It would be easy for MS to still aim for 4k with lockhart but of course it will not be 4k native but just upscaled just like the PS4.  From a number of technical reviews, the upscaled looks is pretty close or close enough which will allow the weaker console to still play with the big boys and keep the cheaper games happy.

4K will be the standard. I remember looking at TVs in Target and Walmart and being surprised at how cheap they were, also pretty much all of the Options there were all 4K.

Thank you for your input, I have decided to put them on my list to buy. I’m still sad Xbox won’t be getting Star Ocean, Last Remnant and Resonance of Fate Remasters so ill have to settle with the 360 versions.

If we ended up with a scenario where both Anaconda and PS5 are $499, regardless of TF, Lockhart at 4TF or 6TF could potentially be a problem for PS if Pro doesn't stick around. If XB finds a way to market Lockhart and get momentum behind it, they could grow that segment quickly, and once people are 'locked' into the XB ecosystem, hopefully upsell them on Anaconda when they eventually require 4k.

If Pro is still around, then Lockhart is going to have an uphill battle because PS having a bunch of cross gen exclusives and third parties catering to the massive PS4 user base for years, won't allow Lockhart's hardware to mean all that much early on. Unless MS comes out guns blazing with a slew of high quality first party exclusives, or 'locks' up some big third party titles, Lockhart is going to have to wait a couple years before it becomes more appealing, but that's also when Anaconda and PS5 are selling at $399.

That reddit leak reads like an Xbox fan fiction. I want to believe it but it seems to good to be true!

If it's true though.... Next generation will be very interesting.

Lockhart will likely target 1080. The casual simply don't care enough about 4k or flops. They just want fifa. A $299 launch console would be huge.

Question - is it time we drop the 'V2' from our thread title?

I feel like this thread has become a vibrant Xbox discussion hub in its own right these days!

I second this.