Whilst MS justifies it by saying the somewhat recent Xbox One X is still powerful. Everyone is questioning their tactic, saying the executives are out of touch. Yep, even going as far as sending lots of units to game publishers to work on, some individual units to online reviewers, and even limited supply to retailers. This would've meant Sony, for example, plays things safe/easy by developing a PS5 that's even worse, in terms of features (No RayTracing), and specs (20%-60% slower), and at a higher $600 price, all to stay in status-quo to help the company profit-margin.Ģ) And very early on MS has a full announcement of their next-gen console. We know eventually the specs and the design would leak to their competitor (eg October 2019).
So it's basically a 4K-checkerboard console with NO RayTracing. I think this was the perfect opportunity for MS to one-up and beat the console race, OR vice-versa for Sony to do it, by pulling a 'pro move'.Īnd what I mean about that is that MS should have trolled Sony, by developing a next-gen console that is launching later (December), priced much higher (USD $600), have worse specs (512gb SSD, 12GB RAM, 3.0GHz 8core/8thread, 32cu RDNA-1 GPU), be much hotter (crappy fans), be much louder (crappy fans), look uglier (eg Weird fins), have a confusing name (eg Xbox Series X), and have gimmicky launch titles (eg Minecraft 4K edition).
