Nikana
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Clerical error clearly.
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4ch: MS is going to announce $50 price reduction on both XSX/XSS tomorrow
Clerical error clearly.
BattleScar
Member
Nice. Hopefully this starts a war to the bottom.
phil_t98
#SonyToo
Is the PS5 not an upgrade PS4?
GeorgPrime
Banned
Your comparison only makes sense if their would be a "PS 5 Digital Version" with 50 % less power than Xbox Series X and PS 5..
The downgraded Xbox Series S doesnt feel like a true nextgen console.
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Factoring in that they're targeting different resolutions, what makes the PS5 or the Series X next-gen, but the Series S not next-gen?
HurtPotato
Neo Member
Yeah, this isn't happening. I hope this comment doesn't age like milk...
oldergamer
Member
No i don't see this happening.
turtlepowa
Banned
Actually the Bethesda deal ist much better than 50 bucks. Saves me easily hundreds of bucks.
phil_t98
#SonyToo
and your comparison would make sense if it were the same CPU and Gpu also same memory and hard drive type
levyjl1988
Banned
Remember when there were rumors that Xbox Live Gold will be dropped and online will be free and that never happened.
I doubt Microsoft wants to lose any more money especially after buying Bethesda...
I doubt Microsoft wants to lose any more money especially after buying Bethesda...
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Gold Member
Honestly I can see Series S being $249. Series X tho? Nah, I still think that'll be at $499.
If I'm wrong, I'll punch myself in the face and like it. Goodness knows this week's started off with a nuclear bomb as-is.
If I'm wrong, I'll punch myself in the face and like it. Goodness knows this week's started off with a nuclear bomb as-is.
HaveButOneLife
Banned
Microsoft made a smart move, I was expecting megaton news from Sony last week and didn't get it.
soulbait
Member
How do you know what it feels like, you have not even touched it yet?
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
How much money is MS will to lose in order to compete with Nintendo and Sony though?
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LordOfChaos
Member
It's tomorrow
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Gold Member
That's a good question. They're probably losing at least $50 - $75 on Series S at the current price, probably a bit less on Series X though.
Honestly I don't think the prices will be dropped because All-Access already exists.
LordOfChaos
Member
They're eating another 60 dollars of conversion to countries like Canada on the Series X on top of that US baseline too. PS3 is still supreme at losing money but that's a lot for a mass consumer product like this.
danielJackson
Banned
S is between gens.
Gpu + ram is current gen, rest is next gen.
It cant run same games that X/5 could run at 1080p.
Real next gen can choose between 1080p - 4k and S cant do that
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metareferential
Member
It's like a 200+ price drop.
If you get it with a subscription with all those games it's like they're giving the console away for free.
And the crazy part is my post looks like a random ad, but it's actually true.
martino
Member
So next gen is a hypothetical game that is so awesome in scope that it has to run at 1080p?
That's ridiculous. Nobody with a 4k TV wants that.
GeorgPrime
Banned
Every gen has a huge technology step that makes it different from the last gen and warrants a new console gen.
When you just get an Series S that looks like Xbox One Pro, then you get the same feeling like PS 4 got a PS 4 Pro
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But that's not true either. Knack didn't look better than The Last of Us. One of the defining complaints of next gen so far is that the leap isnt big enough.Every gen has a huge technology step that makes it different from the last gen and warrants a new console gen.
When you just get an Series S that looks like Xbox One Pro, then you get the same feeling like PS 4 got a PS 4 Pro
Next gen features like the SSD and improved CPU will be on the Series S in spades. The ram and GPU will be capable of amazing things at 1080p. The tech step is there.
So what exactly is this next gen thing that the Series S doesnt have?
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LarknThe4th
Member
Wow you where right!!
TimFL
Member
Dropping $50 would do more harm than good in terms of PR. One could spin it that they still had leeway when pricing the consoles and they went for the more expensive price tags which is anti-consumer and only drop it now to checkmate Sony pricing.
Biggest cuck move in the history of gaming, no confidence in your own product.
Biggest cuck move in the history of gaming, no confidence in your own product.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
BlackM1st
Banned
iirc Sony sold 1 million PS4 consoles initially.
Can't say that it was all through preorders of course, but looks like PS5 is in the even bigger demand after self isolation and all that Coronavirus stuff.
My point is that MS should have been price cutting xbox BEFORE Ps5 preorders started.
jimbojim
Banned
I presume you meant in UAE. Yeah, for some reason XSX was more expensive = 13$. They've dropped the price just to be in same price range like PS5. That happened 1 day ago.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Gold Member
Yes and then there's also the fact that BOM doesn't cover advertising budget per system, assembly costs, packaging costs, shipping & handling costs etc.
I'd venture MS are probably eating about $130 - $140 on each Series S (just quickly pulled out of my ass numbers), but probably "only" about $80 or so on each Series X because I think that system's MSRP is much closer to the actual BOM. Sony is probably losing between $30 - $50 on each PS5 physical (factoring in advert budgets, assembly costs etc.), but maybe as much as $130 - $150 for each PS5 DE...
...which might partially explain why ratio splits between the DE and physical are so lopsided in favor of the latter. I'm curioius what the ratio split for Series S/Series X is going to end up being at launch.
Vawn
Banned
That still HAS to happen. Otherwise, Microsoft doubled the price of Xbox Gold by removing the ability to purchase 12 months.
kingpotato
Ask me about my Stream Deck
So... I don't see any price drops. Can we be done believing every thing you read on the internet?
Rocco Schiavone
Member
splattered
Member
They probably had this backup plan waiting in the wings depending on how the world took their Zenimax purchase news... if it didn't raise much hype then they could drop prices. But the news blew up huge so maybe they felt confident enough not to lower prices. *shrug*
thelastword
Banned
Has it been announced? This pricedrop?
IvanCarlos
Neo Member
I cant believe u guys still believes in chan sources...
vypermajik
Member
This again? It was last week too.
JerryinSoCal
Member
They both should have kept quiet on that, Sony was doing a decent amount of 1st party cross-gen and other than Halo MS doesn't have any real AAA first party games even coming out until 2022 and most of those announced titles aren't cross-gen. Marketing is all bullshit, I wish they'd just show their games and say this is what we have buy it if you like it and shut up lol.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Close I guess...
www.ign.com
Xbox Series S Price Already Reduced in Japan - IGN
Xbox has reduced the price of Xbox Series S by around $30 in Japan, possibly to compete with the PS5 Digital Edition.
Woodchipper
Member
Lol, a price drop BEFORE launch? That would be the most hilarious thing ever. Even Microsoft thinks that Sony already won, if true.