Yup. Which is why it’ll be very, very interesting to see what Sony’s price for the PS5 is. It has been argued Sony doesn’t want to subsidize so we may see a $600 price point.
RickH
1808
More than half a grand is a big ask.
Maybe you pay your $25 or $35 for a couple years and by the time you come to re-up, the new model with the 1TB drive is the one you get.
They have to be, especially on the XSS.
You’re getting an 8c/16t Zen 2 CPU, with 512GB of NVMe SSD, 10GB of DDR5, and RDNA2 graphics for $299??? A comparable Ryzen 3700X is on Amazon alone for $300 right now, and that’s more than a year after release.
Isn’t competition awesome? I hope all 3 companies stay healthy and stay in the game for a long time. Heck, it would be nice if Stadia launch hadn’t been so incompetent and we could get even more players joining the field.
Yeah, but PCIe 4 drives for PC are all way faster since the only reason to use PCIe 4 is if you’re over the 3.5GB/s limit of PCIe 3. No one makes 2 lane PCIe 4 drives like the XBox Series use. You can buy faster PCie 3 1TB drives for just over $100 at Newegg or Amazon.
Yeah, and it’s 8GB at that speed, 2GB at 56GB/s. Those numbers are concerning. Probably one of the things devs were complaining about. I think the XSS being a 1440p machine is mostly a pipe dream.
PS5s should be not insignificantly cheaper to build than XSX. Analysts estimated the build cost at $450.
$400/$450 seems like convenient prices to slot into between the Xbox systems.
I don’t know or care about anything here. It just lines up in a satisfying way.
I think they keep saying 1440p because it’s sounds better, but they know the overwhelming number of buyers are going to be playing at 1080p. So if it 1440p suffers from lower frame rate, no one is going to be seeing it. At least not in significant numbers.
That would be selling the consoles at a loss.
I think they’ll sell the Digital version at a loss for $399 and the Disc version at a profit for $499. In aggregate it will be a wash.
There’s no way in hell a blu-ray drive is $100 in cost of goods. What else are they trimming off of the thing?
Alstein
1819
the SSD is only 512GB instead of 1TB, and I suspect some graphical downgrade, as the digital version only supports 1440i instead of 4K.
I think it’s supposed to be 299 not 399 though.
The price difference doesn’t have to be exactly the same as the component price difference.
Menzo
1821
Are you talking about the Xbox Series S or the PlayStation 5 All Digital version? They are two very different beasts.
Petey
1822
I was only going to get two PS5’s for me and my daughter…as I never use my Xbox and she loves her PS4…but, with payment plans, heck ya. Now if Sony would do that, $140 per month (assuming PS5 is 499) for 4 consoles and game pass type things…,no problem.
The wife spends $300 on cigs and coffee each month…she got no argument!
TimJames
1824
It makes me feel warm inside whenever I see 4K and 120 FPS.
Think about how some little kid is going to get his first ever console this Christmas with that kind of processing power.
Com’on. It’s 2020. History books:
The Xbox Series is released. The networked system goes on-line November 10th, 2020. Xbox begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, November 29th.
I mean, you can get 4K 120 FPS on some pretty crappy hardware, as long as you’re playing CSGO or Overwatch or something like that. Doesn’t mean you’re going to get it on Valhalla.
