Before Sony revealed PS4 Pro, the company's mid-generation hardware upgrade fastened for launch this November, assumption was prevalent that the Xbox One Scorpio would be far more superior when talking about raw performance seeing Microsoft's new console bears 6 teraflops of computing muscle.
As learned last month, the difference between the PS4 Pro and the upcoming Xbox One Scorpio is indeed large. But one critical, possibly a make-or-break aspect that Microsoft is still going to unveil is the actual shelf price of the Scorpio. As a VR ready and 4K-capable hardware, it'll apparently come from the higher end of price spectrum - for viewpoint, Pro will retail at $399 this Nov 10 - and Xbox Head Phil Spencer just said to NZGamer that it'll be probably priced as "a premium console."
Designed in parallel with the Xbox One S, the Head of Xbox noted how both the Scorpio and its sleek hardware siblings enlightened Microsoft to gauge design aspects and what demographic they would lean on. Though Spencer did not disclose an exact figure, it would be safe to say that the Xbox One Scorpio will be bound with a comparatively higher price tag by the holidays next year - probably from $400 to $500 range, We Got This Covered reports.
"So I think you will feel like it's a premium product, a premium console. And not something, anything more than that. So I wouldn't get people worried that this thing is going to be unlike any console price you've ever seen. We didn't design it that way.
"That said, the opening price point for the Xbox One S, and the different hard drive sizes, that is a critical part of this whole product. When I think about it as a product line, you should expect the pricing to kind of be in line with that."
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