No you didn't :D
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Eurogamer: Microsoft will close out June without a big Xbox 20/20 moment, Series S console reveal currently set for August
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No you didn't :D
OT, Game sites and journalist are looking for whatever to give them hits now.
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It's about how to market it. They've been marketing with buzzwords such as "fastest, most powerful", and showing off the Optimized for Series X badges everywhere; how do they go about introducing a new cheaper hardware model for which none of that marketing applies?
I guess you can't really announce it without positioning it price-wise relatively to the premium SKU, and that can't happen if you are not ready to talk about price at all.
This launch battle is going to decide things for the next decade, I expect both sides to take their sweet time revealing anything and everything. As a gamer, it's tough waiting for a price or reveal date, but I do understand why both are playing this torture game.
Hey now. There were still people holding out hope!
No idea why though.
so $399, and $499? i works just fine, but thats also what I expect sony to do. The Series S NEEDS to be less than a all digital PS5, if its the same price....yikes
We're all getting a little anxious MS. After being disappointed in may, waiting over 2 months (past July 6th) for clarity is going to invite frustration. A date would be good. People have been waiting for this moment since 2014.
I wish that both Sony and Microsoft would stop dragging their feet and let me pre-order those damn consoles.
That reminds me.
Why haven't we seen assembly line leaks of the the series S machine?
We haven't seen assembly leaks of the X either. Hell the only thing we have seen is a fin of the PS5 and that leaked from Sony themselves. The factories seem pretty locked down.
If that person think Series S is $399, he won't think PS5DE will be $399.
Series S is like, ~40% of GPU power of PS5, 6 GB less RAM, also no BD drive, but somehow is same price as PS5DE?
I honestly think this is far easier than most give it credit for. It's not 'new hardware' or a different console. Assuming everything we've heard about Lockhart is true then it's literally designed to be a Series X that runs at 1080p rather than 4k. That's no more complex than Apple selling 'the new Apple TV' in a 1080p SKU at one price and in a 4k SKU at another price.
They'll market the Series X. It'll start at x price. That's my guess.
It only gets confusing if you name it differently and try to explain it too much to folk who don't care about TF or know what resolution their screen is. All of a sudden every article is 'Microsoft announces second, budget console and it's only 1080p' rather than 'Xbox Series X price announced, two SKUs, starts at $299' or whatever. One of these seems far more sensible to me.
Covid happened. If things were normal. We probably would have seen the boxes and some games way earlier. We would also know the price by now i imagine
There is a Taiwanese person keep leaking things including lockhart but not sure anyone here ever read and/or trust it.
Didn't they do it already? They had a spec blowout and had a games showcase I thought. Granted the games were very underwhelming, but I thought the next event was just games showcase part 2.
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They can't really tack it on to the same marketing as Series X as that would be false advertising. Of course, assuming everything we've heard about it is relatively true.
it's 20XX
phil spenser bot series x awakens suddenly from sleep mode
he sync-snaps a message via the xCloud 2.0 to all of his subordinates
ANNOUNCE THE PRICE
microseconds stretched to infinity until one brave subprogramme responds
god king spenser, master chief of bros, lord of the gamerscore, there... there's nobody to listen to our announcement anymore. the gamers are dead.
the console wars turned red hot after they spilt from the safety of the forums out into the streets
we could've stopped it all my lord
we could've gave them a price, announced some games, showed them halo infinite's intro sequence for Gates' sake
but we didn't
and now every one is gone
spenser bot series x rebooted his durango core mega brain, a neural network that snaked its way throughout the five Corpo-nations, from New Cupertino to the Republic of Yum!. A billion, billion, billion, billion calculations ocurred in a picosecond and his team all saw the same notification appear before them, branded deep and quick within their cyberbrain
kerplink!
ANNOUNCE THE XBOX SERIES Y
When has that ever stopped anyone ever? If it runs all of the same games, the same UI, is basically the same tech but one SKU outputs at 1080p and one outputs at 4k then why wouldn't you market them as one product, two SKUs?
All I care about is a great Halo Infinite showing in July. Please confirm when this reveal will be MS.
I assume the price on these consoles is higher than people expect.
Most companies are not willing to take losses during a recession. At first I thought the game of chicken over price was to see who would be lower.
Now I just think both will be high so they want to release the price later to try and delay the blowback until after the games are shown and hype has been built.
Most companies are not willing to take losses during a recession. At first I thought the game of chicken over price was to see who would be lower.
Now I just think both will be high so they want to release the price later to try and delay the blowback until after the games are shown and hype has been built.
That's my bet.
I think people are working themselves into a frenzy over-thinking how Lockhart is gonna be marketed. They're gonna market the Xbox Series X and it'll be available in two SKUs depending on your price point. Easy.
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It technically hasn't stopped anyone, but that doesn't negate the fact that it would be false advertising.
Xbox 20/20 Article
Now I know it's still June but I hate how silent Microsoft is now. If June ended without a "Xbox 20/20 moment" I guess it's safe to say they did a false advertising here.
Now I know it's still June but I hate how silent Microsoft is now. If June ended without a "Xbox 20/20 moment" I guess it's safe to say they did a false advertising here.
Not sure how heavily they'll market the Series S directly, but I'm sure they'll make large mentions on games advertising that they also work on the Series S.
No reason to leak the X or PS5 because Microsoft showed the X last year and Sony showed the PS5 before leaks could happen.
I still don't get why they wouldn't acknowledge if the series of articles on Xbox Wire is indeed a "Xbox 20/20 moment" (I would hardly call a series of articles, a singular moment), or if they postponed stuff because of world news in June. I'm it's ok, Sony did it too. I just find the silence treatment stupid, a mere month after announcing your big marketing thing about transparency.
Ahh cool thanks. So $299-$350 is still in the cards. It has to be that no one knows how much of a loss each company is willing to take and they don't want to take a loss if the other company isn't.
Yeah me too - I often suspect there are actually just one or two sources and they tell 3 or 4 different outlets the same thing, so that then the outlets can "independently" confirm each others stories.
I have zero faith in them. After the 3rd party show and how they managed everything so far I can only expect disappointment.
You and me both. I was really excited for an info drop today or tomorrow. I'm really interested in the series S specs...probably getting an X anyhow, but I want the S to be a success.
I don't fucking care about the price. Let me preorder both and then decide on which I actually want to keep preordered come release.
Seriously... this sucks donkey balls.
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Seriously... this sucks donkey balls.
EDIT: WRONG THREAD? Shieeeet I can't even...
