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How much will series X cost?

549$ - Halo Infinate sin... 3 15.00%
 
599$ - Halo Infinate MP is free2play. 10 50.00%
 
nah... nope... it has to be... cheaper right? 7 35.00%
 
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thismeintiel on 15 August 2020
Dulfite said:
It's weird, my wife and I are fairly well off financially, but Xbox at $600 seems unreasonable to me. $500 or less? Yep. For some reason that extra $100, which is rather insignificant in the grand view of our finances, puts me into "no buy" territory. I find that odd about myself lol.

But how does your wife's boyfriend feel about the price?

I'm sorry. That just popped into my head when I read your comment.



 

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Link_Nines.XBC on 15 August 2020

I guess people will have to get a second job to purchase it

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hinch on 15 August 2020
sales2099 said:
$599 isn’t appealing to the masses, doesn’t matter what the specs are.

Never forget E3 2006

The specs for Series X are high end and components will be expensive. This is why MS will have an entry level console to coincide to release with the 'high end' model - Series S.

When you have a few big Youtubers chiming in, who have ties to MS or would have contacts there - Alanah Pierce + DF. Its sounding more and more like a possibility.

Check 41:18

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goopy20 on 15 August 2020
Barkley said:
goopy20 said:
Since MS doesn't seem to care much about how many Series X's they'll sell, I don't see why they would be willing to take a hit on each console sold. I'm guessing $599 for Series X, $499 for the ps5 and $399 for the ps5 DE. If Series S is real, it will probably be $299, though.

The cost of the UHD Bluray drive will be about $25. (The UHD Bluray drive in the XBO S was only estimated to cost $33.50 back in 2016). So a $100 price decrease for the digital edition seems unlikely.

I'm not sure what the pricing will be for this digital edition and how they will make it attractive compared to the standard ps5.

$50 less?

Bundled with a game?

More Storage?

They have to do something to make the digital edition more appealing but removing the drive doesn't bring down manufacturing cost much so I'm not sure they can make it an attractive purchase just by lowering it's price, without taking a hit anyway.

I know but its not all about BOM, its about the psychological consumer price that the masses will find acceptable. $399 for the ps5 DE would be the sweet spot. Sony would have to sell it at a loss, of course, but they will be able compensate a bit by charging 100 bucks more for the disk version.

I mean, it would be kinda stupid to release two models if there's just a $25 price difference between them :)

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hinch on 15 August 2020
Ryuu96 said:
Blood_Tears said:
No no no, this doesn't match what my "insiders" are saying at all about price! Insiders like Dusk Golem who got demodded and admitted he lied and made up everything because he didn't like Xbox getting bad press after their last show case.

I mean, what Dusk said could still be true, it only needs PS5 to be more expensive.

Got a source on him admitting he lied?

Also he wasn't de-modded, he stepped down, I have an easy guess why but won't get into that.

He got demodded for admitting to feuding console wars. The 1080P vs 4K on Resi 8 doesn't make sense since its in pre alpha and we don't know the context or what build and optimizations are for the game yet. He then backtracked calling he spoke to more 'sources' claiming PS5 was only capable of fake 4K.

Matt from Resetera also calling him out, who's an actual developer at Activision.

He might have contacts at Capcom, everywhere else is a bit of a guessing game.

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hinch on 15 August 2020
Ryuu96 said:
hinch said:

He got demodded for admitting to feuding console wars. The 1080P vs 4K on Resi 8 doesn't make sense since its in pre alpha and we don't know the context or what build and optimizations are for the game yet. He then backtracked calling he spoke to more 'sources' claiming PS5 was only capable of fake 4K.

Matt from Resetera also calling him out, who's an actual developer at Activision.

He might have contacts at Capcom, everywhere else is a bit of a guessing game.

I'm aware Matt called him out but it was more along the lines of saying he shouldn't say stuff like that when Resident Evil 8 is so far away that making comments on the state of the game is stupid given there's a lot more optimisation to do.

I don't see any evidence that he was de-modded apart from random users on Twitter.

This is the evidence used of him trying to start a 'console war' and 'lying' but I don't see at all how anyone could take that Tweet and say he's admitting to lying in it. I'm not sure how it is console warring either when he was specifically responding to a thread about "Realistically, how is Microsoft expected to compete with Sony next generation? Can they"

If there's anything more concrete then I'll be happy to dump him as a reliable insider.

Maybe but his integrity certainly took a hit. Maybe a reason why?

All of his insider information is from a source from Capcom. And everything else is just wishy washy guesses.

Take with the usual grain of salt as far as I'm aware with these insiders. Its not he is lying or not, it could be all tales from his ass, all we can rely on is Capcom news/leaks as far as I'm aware.



Barkley on 15 August 2020
zero129 said:
shikamaru317 said:

Dusk Golem has been dropping accurate Capcom leaks for like 3 years. I see no reason not to believe him when he says that Capcom was struggling to hit native 4K on PS5 but hit it quickly on XSX. That is to be expected considering the specs difference, it's going to take more optimization to hit native 4k when you have 2 tflops less to work with on PS5. Hard to say if his source about MS being more willing to sell XSX at a loss than Sony is with PS5 is accurate or not, but at the very least it's safe to say he is reliable in regards to Capcom stuff.

This. His been pretty accurate when it comes to Capcom leaks all along, and now all of a sudden when he says something good about xbox and not even something bad about PS5 his full of shit.

The dude literally said he made it all up.



hinch on 15 August 2020

@Ryuu96

I think this is the reason why both are adamant at not going first. Sony did prepare everyone saying that PS5 is going to be more expensive than consoles as of late. Xbox too, since the BOM is most likely at least equal to that of the PS5. All points to high price points for both consoles and neither of them want to break the ice.

Calling it... $599 for both consoles. Prices will be revealed next month.



Barkley on 15 August 2020
zero129 said:
Barkley said:

The dude literally said he made it all up.

Im not saying your wrong but do you have a link?.

I'm trying to find his actual own words, strangely no clear links, but eh.

https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesX/comments/i9rhni/dusk_golem_the_insider_who_started_all_of_the_ps5/

Edit: Found some of his own words on the matter, he never said he "made it all up". He did however say that it was just anecdotal statements, that he's unedcuated on the topic and can't understand the technical details and his reason for sharing them is he thought the forum was too "one-sided".

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LudicrousSpeed on 15 August 2020
Blood_Tears said:
No no no, this doesn't match what my "insiders" are saying at all about price! Insiders like Dusk Golem who got demodded and admitted he lied and made up everything because he didn't like Xbox getting bad press after their last show case.

He didn’t lie about anything, he just said he only brought his information up because of the console warz. Whether the info is legit or not is another story.