I got some bad news for you bud…And this bad news not only affects you, me, and every other gamer moving forward.

I’ve been gaming for years, and I’ve seen crazy shifts in the gaming climate, but I’ve never seen a shift like the one we’re entering now, and it’s going to get worse from here on in.

I’m not sure where in the world you live, but if you live in the USA, you need to not complain, whatsoever.

EVERWHERE else in the world, we’re all tariffed to shit right now, and at least for us over here in Canada, our dollar is in the mid-65 range compared to the US dollar. Meaning what costs you $599 American for an Xbox Series X, costs us like $$800 Canadian, and that’s not including taxes. Other places around the world like Australia have it even worse.

Anyway, all this being said, you better get a better job, start saving your money, or get your parents to start saving money, or get a better job, because your little fun harmless hobby is about to get a whole lot more expensive moving forward.

Corporate greed, and gaming consoles being marked so low for so long is about to get a massive shift, and we’re all about to feel some massive pain.

Be prepared for Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to market their machines like that of IPhones, and it’s no mistake that it’s moving in that direction. For years IPhones have been increasing in prices, and there’s now tiers of different phones, for different prices.

Expect gaming consoles to shoot past the $1000 dollar mark in the near future. Never in my life did I ever think a gaming console would match the same cost of a PC, but it’s getting very close.

A part of me can understand the console price increase, seeing as they last for about 7–8 years before a next gen refresh, but the video game price increase is fucking mind boggling to me. Over here in Canada, again, games for the PS5 run at $89.99, after taxes that’s $103 bucks, for one game dude..

Now they’re talking about games going to $80-$90 American, that’s going to be $120-$130 bucks a game over here. The worst part is due to physical game discs phasing out, we can’t even by games used anymore, and it when we’re done with a digital game, we can’t ever sell it like we could a physical game. And now they’re talking about us getting used to not owning our games anymore…Bro…Imagine for one second, down the road, you buy a brand new car, your first car, I don’t know, a Honda civic 2026..And a few years down the road, Honda says in an interview online, that you don’t own your car anymore, and you were only paying for license to drive that car, and seeing as everything is digital, online, and connected online, they take away your ability to even start your car. This is what one video game developer said not long ago.

Anyway, I’m not trying to get off of track, but in terms of a cheaper console, I highly doubt it. These recent price increases for the PS5/Xbox Series X, this was a market test, and not due to tariffs or rare earth elements, these systems are getting cheaper and going down in price to mass produce due to their age. The companies are doing a test towards consumers to see how far they can push, and given that sales aren’t slowing down, it’s seems like they have a little more further to push.

There’s no money to be made for video game console companies to offer a cheaper more affordable version, the best you’d get is a digital or physical console machine, and eventually physical media is on its way out.

The Xbox Series X just received a huge price increase which makes zero sense considering they’re doing shit in the console hardware race, but I’d expect the next gen Xbox to be Microsoft’s last attempt in the market, seeing as they’ve gotten last place in every console wars, except with the original Xbox, where they got second.

The next gen Xbox will go anywhere from $699-$899 American. I’d love to be wrong, but I expect Sony to follow suit also.

To me anyway, the video game companies need to be very careful here, because bumping up the prices will do a few things.

1. Turn the video game industry into the have’s and have not’s. Meaning not everyone will be able to afford gaming anymore.
2. Push people to PC, since you can make a decent mid-level PC gaming console that has access to steam, and torch every video game console in the market at the moment in terms of power, for about $1200-$1500 bucks.
3. The return of Piracy, in full force.

I remember when I was a lot younger than I am now, and was playing the PS1 in grade 10 in high school, I couldn’t afford my gaming hobby back then, and my my family was poor. I went to Toronto one weekend in Chinatown, modded my PS1 for $50 bucks, had a chip put in, and bought about 10 games for $5 bucks a pop, and was good for about a year, rinse leather repeat, every year moving forward.

I don’t think we’ll ever see a video game crash again Like we did in 80’s, but we’re definitely going to see a bigger rise of Indie games, and we will lose one video game maker out of the big 3 moving forward. The margins are too tight now for the video game console developers.

Everyone is complaining about Nintendo raising their prices, and all I can think to myself is they’re doing this because they know what Sony and Microsoft are going to charge for their next gens, and even though their prices are a huge increase. It will still be the cheapest option in the future, you watch, I know you’re only asking about Xbox here, but all three systems are connected to eachother in this ecosystem.

To me man, Xbox has a perfect chance to destroy everyone in the next gen, and this is what they need to do…

Wait one year, after Sony releases, maybe even 2, and release a more superior console. Secondly, release a console with their own AI friend, that can customize its personality based on your play style, he’ll, just even having an Ai video game friend sounds super cool. You know how many lonely people/gamers are out there man? Give us our own Cortana like Halo. They apparently have Steam ready to be available on the next gen system, so this could be a huge game changer.

Lastly, just make it $50 bucks cheaper than Sony..With at least 10 first party exclusives..Game over…

The very little tidbit of Halo that was shown.

During the trailer, we see Chief running and gunning. However, instead of plasma bolts coming at him, it's human munitions. Bullets.

We also see that the Assault Rifle he's using was firing in what appeared to be a semiautomatic mode. Firing modes on a few of the weapons in Infinite would be an interesting gameplay mechanic, in my opinion.

Lastly, he's seen running towards a massive canyon, with what seems like smoke and dust kicked up everywhere. Why is that? What's going on?

Then again, it might just be another graphical display and have absolutely zero reference to the final intended product.

There are quite a few if you look at it.

It is the most powerful between The Xbox Series X|S and PS5

The sheer amount of entertainment value. What I mean is this: the xbox wasn’t meant to be a hardcore gaming system, it was meant to be an entertainment system. You don’t have to use it as a gaming console because it supports 4k Blu-Ray so you can watch movies with it.

The Game Pass/ GP Ultimate. I may be a little bias but I feel as though Microsoft launched the GP (Game Pass) very well. GP Ultimate was so well launched because you could get it for 1 month for $1. Even if you regretted it, it was 1 dollar! After that month it would be the normal price. The Game Pass has hundreds of games for about 15 bucks a month. They also just bought Bethesda, so yeah.

Hope this helped!

The Ally 1 retailed for 799, the Ally 2 will no doubt exist in that space, probably a little more, so lets say 899.

The Xbox Ally and the Xbox Ally X aren’t just ASUS products, they are Microsoft products, so the profit has to be shared. Unlike an “actual” handheld console, Microsoft isn’t going to be earning much in the way of game sales on the device (why pay “console prices” on the MS store when you can pay “Steam prices”?) which is tradiationally why console makers are able to sell hardware at a loss.

So the Xbox Ally X could cost 999. Which would explain why they keep referring to it as a “premium device”.

If Microsoft takes the same route as previously then and this is just some logical guess work as we don't know much yet it's all Rumours about what hardware is in the XSX.

The CPU and GPU will be from AMD (Rumours suggest a Zen2 CPU and RDNA “NAVI” GPU) these will be manufactured by AMD's manufacturing subcontractor GlobalFoundries.

The GDDR6 Ram made by either Samsung, Micron Tech or SK Humid these are the only 3 companies that make this type of Ram so at least one has to supply the Ram.

The SSD storage drives could come from multiple companies but Microsoft will most likely go with one of the major manufacturers like Samsung, Seagate or Western Digital.

The BluRay drive could come from several manufactures like Samsung or LG will most likely be based on price.

The remaining components like the Motherboard, Power Supply and Case will be designed by Microsoft and built by a subcontractor no clue who as that not the sort of thing announced.

All then part will then be shipped to a facility run by a manufacturing subcontractor like Foxconn who will assemble the components in to a console then package it up and ship them out to wholesalers and retailers all over the world.

It's interesting to think that Microsoft may very likely never actually be in possession of the completed consoles as they will organise for them to go straight from manufacturer to retailers.

Yes. Xbox Series X has a slightly bit more beefier specs and is capable of 4K. That and it does have a optical drive.

Xbox Series S is a bit under power. Sure, it’s definitely a pretty decent console, especially if you’re on a budget, but it’s not worth it if 4K is important to you and if you wanted to watch movies on disc. That and one of the biggest flaw to the Series S is that you’re stuck with digital contents only, which can be a bad thing since you’re dependent on the server to work. Once it stops working, which won’t be a problem until at least next decade, you essentially got yourself a paperweight unless if you can mod it.

Gaming moves towards online sales with high downloads in data from the CD that had patents from Phillips and Sony, gaming may change with per level sales , where mega games from mega publishers rather sell per level and not individual 69.99 games where people wait years and years for a specific game ,

“its true ,gamers wait years and years for a specific games, is this wrong for the industry”

small publishers are out of control and saturated the market with low type games that want a quick buck , that cause games to be made in a bad way , where mega publishers hold the console ,and may move towards per level sales that generate high revenues to take control from the smaller publishers, whats right it means that mega publishers such as capcom , konami , teyon , red ink,2K, EA, Warner bros can make per level sales , that the time may be right as the world population grows and grows,

alien fire team expansion pack that was a level that was made for a specific franchise , per level sales would generated billions of dollars more and mega publishers should now start per level sales of mega games.some gamer don t believe that game publishers stop using renders ie games and not make expansion or more games of mega story's. sales of 2hr game play for 7.99 is more in line with the market of gaming , where mega publishers would generate billions of dollars with mega games they hold .

“per levels prices around 7.99 with 300 levels released per week or per month,

“mega publishers are the only publishers that can begin per level sales of their mega story's and franchises ”

“Most gamer buy mega publishers only and mega publishers don t make enough games”

per level sales stats over 5 years of sales of per level senarios

• 300 levels prices at $7.99 each of a mega story franchise over 2 million sold of each level -total revenue 4.7 Bn Dollars

This would include mega games story ideas such as alien franchises , star wars franchises , mafia franchises , GTA franchises , metal gear solid .

types of games

• investor company that make games
• gaming giants
• individuals making a game

“smaller publishers are out of control with low types games that dont respect gaming and its future”

I’ll treat you like I’m treating myself.
I bought into the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles and maintained a small sized collection coming out of that generation. As well as Xbox 360.

I’d argue that if you’re coming from an older platform, because a lot of people refuse to realize that some people nowadays are still playing on the Xbox 360, etc.

If that were the case. Hmm…
I’d say yes under specific circumstances. If like me, you’re still just wanting to go back and revisit the Xbox One library, you’d be better off doing what I did. I went out and bought an Xbox One X bundle for $200 that included several games, and four controllers.
Console runs beautifully too, plus the Xbox One X is built to deal with things like heat and stuff better. It’s also a great way to go back and reexperience some older 360 games and more.

Now say you’re just wanting to upgrade and you plan on buying into the Xbox Series games that might soon become exclusive to those consoles, go for it.
I’d also say that if you’re wanting to just convert your whole library to a new platform, the Series X has some issues with sticky buttons on backwards compatible racing games, but otherwise the console is perfect for starting from ground up.

A lot of people who moved over are happy with it. I mean as well, if you’re someone who’s got a ton of games, or like a ton of other users, you’ve got 16TB of External HDDs slap full of games, and wanna just jump to a stable platform where they can be played. Yes, in that case, the Series X won’t require much and it’s as easy and just plug and play and enjoy.

Definitely. The XBOX Series X even has a large improvement over the already quite powerful XBOX One X. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a smooth 4k 60, 4k 120 experience on major games. It also comes with an SSD compared to older Gen Hard drives. (Yes you could replace it with a SATA III SSD but it’d really be nowhere as fast as an M.2 SSD). Not to mention the graphical improvements, they’ve also stepped up and used GDDR6 memory. The CPU improvements are also monumental with using something comparable to a modern CPU than what older gen consoles used that already fell behind at launch, with no SMT/Hyperthreading capabilities, limited clock speeds e.t.c. So for an upgrade or a first buy, if you have enough money, definitely cop a series X

Well the Xbox Series X will likely Graphically be the most powerful system of the next generation. See bellow spec cheat. For example Xbox Series X has 18% more Tflop power than the PS5. It also targets 4K at up to 120fps.

Xbox Series S has around the same specs but has much fewer Tflops, what this means is that it will run the same games as the Xbox Series X but target a resolution between 1440p - 1080p at 120 fps instead. This console is apparently also very tiny.
Phil spencer with the Xbox Series S in his bookshelf.

Xbox Series V hasn’t been announced but is a rumored Xbox Series X without the disc drive. Likely this one will have the same specs but with the disc drive removed and sold somewhat cheaper.

This is the current prices for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S:

Yes, unless those extra 200 usd you save by buying series s are so critical to you that you’ll be starving if you spend them. If you live in any of Western developed countries, where medial annual salaries are in the range of 40 000 - 60 000 usd, I see no reason why you should buy an inferior console and compromise your own gaming experience for years to come just to save 200 usd. Buy a decent console, buy a decent TV, enjoy life. Don’t skimp on your own entertainment and preasure, don’t be cheap, we are bying these consoles once in 7 years, not every month. At least, that’s how I look at this.

Not much. But thats not the power in these machines. The power is writing the OS directly to the hardware. The hardware is rather old and not that great if it was running a Windows Machine.

PS5 CPU is a custom chip with 8 Zen 2 cores running at 3.5Ghz(variable), all equipped with hyperthreading that totals it up to a logical 16 cores. The GPU is the latest RDNA2 based Navi chip that has 36 Compute Units, all running at 2.23 GHz. Memory gets shared between both the CPU and GPU from a central pool of 16 GB of GDDR6. For the storage, PS5 has an 825GB custom SSD, capable of loading around 2GB of data in a mere 0.27 secs.

The Xbox Series X is one of Microsoft’s latest video game consoles, in their line of video game consoles known by the name, “Xbox”.

In the line (without me naming their non-main alternate consoles) they publicly released, to stores…

• “Xbox” (The Original) - Which Microsoft released in 2001
• “Xbox 360” - Which Microsoft released in 2005
• “Xbox One” - Which Microsoft released in 2013

And now there’s the “Xbox Series X”, which Microsoft released on November 10, 2020.

For more information on the Xbox Series X, you can find that in the two links I provided below. One link leading to Xbox’s official page, and the other leading to Wikipedia’s page.

The all-new Xbox Series X | Xbox

Xbox Series X and Series S - Wikipedia

$699-$799 if system is meant to really last and can be updated and upgraded (including AR and VR); $499-$599 if they are banking on the 5–7 year cycle.

Caveats and Rambling Below:

I am unsure when either system plans on launching (because Xbox and PS are forever linked in this way), so I can really only speculate. My guess is that Xbox is going to attempt to either release first and set the pricepoint higher to get the lion’s share of hardware revenue up front before dropping the cost when and if Sony undercuts Microsoft. Alternately, the Xbox might price under or the same as PlayStation, which has been the most consistent behavior from both companies over the years.

Possible number: is likely closer to $600 USD this time around if rumors about specifications are true. Neither company wants to stay at that level if they can help it, or unless Microsoft can make a case that this system can’t be sold for less. An example of this might be showing that their Augmented Reality system is ready to go on the console or that this is a ten year system that can upgrade modularly like a PC (memory, storage and graphics mainly).

The Xbox Series S , titled Lockhart , will be a lot cheaper that the custom Xbox Series X .

The S does not sport a disc drive , and is solely a digital edition , The console is itself drastically smaller in height , and resembles a cube , while the X resembles an upward cuboid .

As the dimensions have reduced , it calls for smaller boards , and a reduction in specs . So although both the consoles features the same AMD architecture , the S version has a smaller GPU size , so lower teraflops and lower graphics quality .

As a result , the Series S is rumored to be 200$ cheaper than the Series X , which is a huge profit for those gamers who are budget conscious , and would love to get into the console wars . Let's see how the events unfold then !

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well I don't know because Microsoft themselves haven't announced the price tag but sources have said that's going to be around 400-450$ which isn't far off but the reason it's so expensive is because like everything that's new it's going to be expensive!!! And in my humble opinion if you are smart with your money I would recommend to just wait until console prices drop and I know a lot of people that will say “just save your money and build a PC!!!” which I feel like that's a very self-centered and a close minded response!!! Because the people that say that are not considering your lifestyle and the type of games you like to play!!! It's all because they think it's better……… FOR THEM AND NOT FOR YOU!!!! But I hope this answers your question sorry for that long-ass paragraph of a rant!!! Happy gaming!!<3

The simple version is…

Xbox Series X: for people with 4K TVs who want a top their experience.

Xbox Series S: for people with HD TVs who want don’t need all the power.

Xbox Series V: for spirits and fairy-folk, as it doesn’t seem to exist.

The Series S is “proportionally” weaker than the Series X whilst maintaining the features of the Series X, which makes sense since the S only has to worry about 1/4 the resolution.

Notes.

I’m sorry but I just don’t buy that crappy looking leak in a week where MS has the actual renders of an unannounced console, actual trailers, and press briefings that forced MS to announce a bunch of connected stuff to take control of the leak.

MS made the deliberate choice to have the S and X visibly different so parents go into the shop and say “my kid wants the new Xbox, the white one”. Having a 2nd black console that visible similar to the other black console destroys that and what exactly is the market for an “in-between 4k and HD”?

Tell me the Series V is a Switch like a hybrid, an “optimised” device for cloud streaming, a standalone headset, or a even a hybrid PC, and I could see it but a not quite 4k console just doesn’t seem to be a thing.

Whilst I can certainly see MS releasing a digital-only Series X, I really doubt they’d give it a separate name if its just the lack of drive.

Everyone wonders about the release of new consoles and their model names…

With PlayStation you can tell which console is newest as the higher the number the newer the console; PlayStation 1–2–3–4–5… But Xbox does not make knowing easy…

At first it made sense just Xbox… then we got the Xbox 360, Xbox One, then the Xbox One S and X followed by the newest Xbox Series X and Series S…

Nobody but Microsoft CEOs know why they went for this method instead of following Sony with the 1–2–3–4–5 etc… Because it's definitely not patented as numerical ascension can't be patented. Maybe there's some sort of symbolic meaning behind the letters X and S… like how Elon Musk was making a huge joke out of the Tesla Releases… Starting with the Model S then Model 3 then the model X… (Did you know Elon wanted the Model 3 to be the Model E…)

Anyway sorry it doesn't really answer the question but unless a Microsoft CEO or Xbox Senior Staff use Quora I doubt you will…

series x is the top of the line machine. more power more storage and more possibilities.

series s is the “budget” series x. half the pwoer half the storage no disc drive and a step up from a xbox one but not the leap a series x is

a series V is an imaginary device thought up by xbox fanboys. . that is totally unnecessary and irrelevant, why would microsoft make a hand held console after sinking billions into making xbox cloud available on cell phones??? the thought is redundant. it would be smaller than most cell phones and as comfortable to hold as a gameboy advanced (remember those? made for people with hands the size of a ten year old?) why would anyone choose to buy that when they can simply connect their controller to their phone without issue and get the same graphics capability as a series x? no extra anything to get in the way besides the subscription to gamepass you would need to play anything on a “series V”.specs for it were leaked when the series x was first in development before nintendo released the Switch and microsoft was toying with the idea of a handheld. they instead put their money into “cloud” gaming and the servers that support it. currently sony partnered with microsoft to use azure cloud servers and systems to run their own cloud on their platform. so again why would microsoft waste time, effort, and most importantly money, on a handheld that would be ddomed to fail before they manufactured the first one??