HawaiianDreads
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Pretty sure its going to be $399 I have a feeling that he saying that price to generate more hype I mean MS can't be that dumb to put the console at S499.
If you want to read some dumb anecdotal shit to believe at your own risk:
A friend was telling me on friday that he went to Gamestop to spend some store credit, and the employees weren't at the counter. He could hear them in the back, apparently they got their Scorpio materials and were talking about how "they couldn't believe it was only $399"
Obviously anyone can make up that sort of shit but I trust him on it. He knows I don't care so he's not telling me to be a console warrior or something, it's just a funny thing to stumble into. Again believe at your own risk but I was already expecting $399 anyways so it's not terribly outrageous
LOL.
It will be 399. It has to be.
Anything higher is suicide.
With that money you can build a great PC with i5 and GTX 1060 6GB
Patcher said that $499 was possible, but if it was that high it will be DOA.
Pretty sure its going to be $399 I have a feeling that he saying that price to generate more hype I mean MS can't be that dumb to put the console at S499.
Ok, I agree it's unlike Keighley to leak such a thing. But it's just as unlikely that he'd take the hit to his reputation for some shady MS marketing agreement.
It'll be $499.
Is a RX480... And Jaguar cores...The pricing is understandable for the new and potent hardware it has.
exactly i hope this isn't where he got his info from lolGeoff heard what he heard.. but nobody rehearses with the real $-figure. Played like a pope!
Geoff heard what he heard.. but nobody rehearses with the real $-figure. Played like a pope!
People always want more for less or the same. You can't have it both ways and screaming DOA from the rooftops won't make a difference. I'd argue $60 games is too low for their creating costs which is why we have come to this mumbo jumbo crate system to bleed whales dry to recover increasingly higher costs as people expect bigger, prettier and more depth games.$500 would be pretty low. Microsoft spent so much time explaining everything and laying out spec details and people are still expecting $400? So weird.
Scorpio was NEVER going to win back marketshare. It's a premium product that's going to sell a fraction of the units of the base model...just like the PS4 Pro. Many in GAF made the false assumption that Scorpio was to be a mass market product and built a house of straw out of it.This is very disappointing and confirms they don't intend to try to get back all the marketshare lost with XB1.
Almost nobody outside their core userbase will buy at that price.
What if he is half right.
There is a sku for 499 and a sku for 399
@michaelpachter
Geoff is well connected and most likely right. $499 puts Scorpio at a disadvantage, expect PS4 Pro to get a price cut tomorrow
That's assuming you have all the other parts for the PC already. If you don't it's a much bigger investment. If you want reasonably high end graphics without going all in, Scorpio should serve the purpose.
Nice try Geoff, how much MS pay you to say that for shocking news micdrop omg $399?
.Scorpio was NEVER going to win back marketshare. It's a premium product that's going to sell a fraction of the units of the base model...just like the PS4 Pro. Many in GAF made the false assumption that Scorpio was to be a mass market product and built a house of straw out of it.
Money. Thats what he has to gain. Money, and he has been known to do stupid shit for it before.To those thinking this is staged:
What does Keighley have to gain by doing this assuming it's not some MS ploy?
If it is an MS ploy... why? Why rile everyone up when they can just announce $399 at their conference and get the same amount of cheers?
Huh I wonder if my store got any marketing for the Scorpio. I haven't seen any, but then again we've been busy lately with other stuff these past few days.