No way. Too expensive for Lockhart and too cheap for PS5/DE.
I think MS will be aggressive on price. I think they will have a base Series X with a BD-dirve and an all-digital. The base Series X will be $449 and the all-digital $349.
The Lockhart will be $249.
Yes, all extremely aggressive. but I think they are trying to force Sonyâs hand to match and take a loss on hardware, which they canât afford to do, or not match and leave MS with not only the most powerful hardware, but also the cheapest.
$249 Lockhart and $399 would be super aggressive. I donât think itâs likely but I guess it depends on how aggressive Ms wants to be in the console space or if they are OK with consoles selling a lot less than ps5 since they are getting users from pc and Xcloud.
The insane part is that I think that even a $399 SX would still be outsold by a $499 ps5
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Probably, with the PS4 momentum and support outside of NA. But they could grab a big chunk of the casual market.
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book it :b i only see Lockhart being cheaper if it comes w/o controller.
The current meta is XSX and PS5: 499
XSS (Lockhart): 299
PS5 DE: 399
Any deviation from this shall be + or - 50 dollars/euros/whatever at max
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$300 Lockhart
$500 XSX
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If lockheart is $299 itâs DOA.
I expect Lockheart at $199-$249 and XSX at $399-$499(depending on PS5D). PS5D I expect at $449-$499 and PS5 at $499- $549with media remote and headphones.
Lockheart is there for the masses and itâs BOM is much cheaper than other consoles, it can also recoup money as itâs digital only. So MS gets ~30% of every game sold instead of ~13% of retail one time purchase for a game that gets re-sold 6times without MS getting a cut. So sell a console and masses buy into your services especially GamePass.
XSX Is much smaller=cheaper shipping, requires cheaper cooling, requires smaller PSU, cheaper SSD all compared to PS5 consoles. Sony spoke of PS5 as a premium console, MS spoke about Scarlett as not going to be more expensive or weaker (per Spencer). Also due to yields required for PS5, I donât see the APU being cheaper to manufacture for it either.
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My guess
XSX: 449 Starting at 29 (All Access Gamepass 24 months)
XSS (digital only maybe ?): 299 Starting at 22,5 (All Access 24 Gamepass months)
Imo, success depends on how much they will expand the All Access program (not only the USA) and if they are willing to spend a lot more in marketing, both for Xbox and All Access (Xbox marketing in Europe seemed very very low for the Xbox One when compared to Sony and Nintendo).
Marketing ads saying:
âNext-gen console Xbox Series S starting at 22,5 dollars (for 24 months) with 24 months of Gamepass included (over 100 games), Halo Infinite and free multiplayer and no upfront costâ
would be great for families and casuals for sure.
And it would do wonders to their Gamepass strategy.
Phil recently said that All Access was going to be âcriticalâ for Xbox next-gen launch and the overall generation so I expect MS to push it big.
It would be curious if MS doesnât have a XSX Digital only edition though.
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Sony isnât bundling a $30 remote and $100 headphones with the PS5.
$199âŚyea, no. If they were going to do that, they would have gotten rid of Xbox One S. It will be $299.
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I think that they are keeping One S for right now because they will have limited availability of XSS. If they were going to go for $300&$500 they wouldnât need to wait for Sony to announce
Microsoft are in a position to play a longer game, ms can make plans for the next 30yrs, where as sony just cant take as high short term losses. E.g break even one gen to greatly expand mindshare and userbase, sony cant do this but ms can.
I really believe ÂŁ399 to ÂŁ449
Would be crazy if series x is cheaper and a nutshot to greedy sony i say that because of their spree at locking down exclusive content for multiplatform
They can wait because they can change the price to be more aggressive is Sony is being aggressive.
400 ⏠would be a superagresive move from Microsoft. They would lose even more money with each unit 
I also think it is going to be 500.
I think itâs more in the realm of possibility than folks assume it is. I think PS5 will be $550 and DE $450. I think MS will match Sonyâs cheapest price for XSX and have a sub-$300 XSS. MS is stalking Sony on this front, very obviously waiting to pounce. When Sony holds off, MS does too. There is a reason for that. Sony is actively wiggling around tryna avoid the inevitable too. Xbox All Access is a wildcard here too. MS might have ppl put $40 down and walking outta stores with XSX and GPU. Sony canât compete with that on the value front.
Iâve long learned not to assume anything wrt hardware sales. Everyone presumed N64 would dominate, then they assumed PS3 would, then they assumed X1 would (early on pubs felt this way). It isnât easy to know how fluid fan bases actually are. It is clear to me that hardware sales donât tell a meaningful story anyhow given how big a platform Xbox is likely to become across xCloud, console, PC, mobile. The whole âpointâ of fanboys caring about hardware sales was supposed to be premised on the thought that more hardware meant more software revenues and more new games to play. But that isnât the way it works anymore.
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399.99$ US for Series X, 279.99$ US for Series S. Sony goes for 399.99$ All Digital PS5 and 499.99$ Disc based version.
MS will be absorbing more of a loss than Sony I think considering Sony will probably profit from people buying the disc based version of their console, especially needed for lots of people for BC.
MS will bank on recouping on the long term with an increase in Game Pass subscriptions and higher user spendings in their games like Halo F2P on DLC and such as they are now available on Xbox/PC/Cloud. Removing the barrier of entry for Live Gold is bound to have a positive effect on sales and considering how well their games are doing on PC Iâm expecting good return from their diversification.
They have to undercut as much as they can or else I feel like once the launch period is over and we get close to April next year sales will dip just like it did last gen, except this time they do t have a Kinect accessory they can take away to reduce the price and reducing price a few months after launch (like Nintendo did with the 3DS) would be a really bad look imo.
Series X - $500 - Enthusiast Series S - $250 - Mass Market
I feel like these are the prices they are going for dependent on what Sony prices at. Sure they will have a last minute price in the works if Sony try to outlast them.