Rumour: Xbox Series X Was Originally Going To Launch In August, Lockhart In October

I think someone said they wanted it be like Apple TV size, so I’m guess it might look a lot like the current X. That’s funny though with the disguise thing.

It will probably be a lot smaller than the XSX. But yea the secrecy just goes to show how much these companies don’t want their reveals ruined by leaks. 😂

That's some secrecy. But it quite clearly exists as a watered down, cheaper version of series x rather than something used in servers for xcloud like some people have suggested.

We need a release date and price revealed. There's no point in waiting for Sony to go first, they won't because they don't need to.

Personally tired of the speculation (not saying against them being covered, for the record.)

Obviously the August date is not going to happen, they are not going to announce things at the end of July to then say “buy it at target next week!” That makes this rather late “leak” meaningless. It’s like hearing a “the PS5 was going to be originally glow-in-the-Dark banana yellow!” It’s the kind of info that better serves as launch postmortem than pre-launch rumors. IF true. Might be just someone trying to get attention.

I say they should release the XSeX in August. Imagine all the FOMO suffers unable to wait until November, and going out and snapping them up. Then release the XSeS In October/November, and have all the parents faced with either buying a £600-£700 PS, or an xbox for half the price.

This would actually make things interesting.

@Richnj that would be interesting, but I don't think PS5 will cost that much. We all remember '$599 USD', and Sony certainly does, so I don't see this being anywhere near that.

I actually think that while PS5 will cost more than Xbox, it will be cheaper than people are expecting. Its quite possible Sony is deliberately hinting at a high price only to announce something people aren't expecting, and catch Microsoft off guard by luring them into a false sense of security.

@SuperNintendoMii They could be, but the whole "value" talk, and it being Sony, this seems well within character for them. The PS5 is coming off the PS4. The PS4 was a tremendous win. A fantastic console, fantastic line up, fantastic features, and a huge lead on the competition. The PS3 and its $600 price tag was because it was coming off the PS2, and like the PS4, Sony scored big with PS2, and they figured their fans would pay anything, and they were half right. The PS3 sold poorly by PS home consoles standards, but it still sold well compared to most anything else. That said, Sony stocks themselves took a decent hit. Though I can't imagine selling an expensive console at $200 below its "value" would make stockholders happy either.

There's just a lot about the PS5 that feels like the PS3 when it was announced and launched. I guess if nothing else, the fact that Sony haven't announced prices, shows how much MS have done right so far. We'll just have to wait and see how Sony plays it next.

I would probably get Lockhart if it came with a disc drive..

@Bmartin001
yeah, me too. I love tiny cute consoles (and I'm running out of space under my tv). Lockhart would be a day one buy if it had a disc drive, but without it it's a hard pass.

@PretendWorking There are no firm prices yet. Most things are going off of speculation and rumours.

When it comes to pricing consoles though, $250 is the price console makers want to hit with their consoles. It's like the golden price. The price most people will happily pay for a console. Normally the cost of the hardware and wanting to make money back means that hitting that price at launch is hard, but they will continually work to make the hardware cheaper until they get there. Given the cost of the components going in to the next gen systems, it's hard to believe that MS and Sony could sell them for very cheap. At $600-$700, they'd still be sold at a loss.

But this is where the genius of MS' strategy comes in. If they have a Series S, and are still making and selling games on the Xbone, they could be subsidising the XSX with their games and lower end hardware. I think MS are going to take a huge loss on each XSX console and make the money elsewhere, while Sony either have to take huge losses on each console to build up the playerbase, or sell the console at a high price.

@PretendWorking $600 not £600. It would be more like £500-550. And bare in mind, the X1X is $500/£450.

If you were to base the console price off of the production costs, and assume Sony will do what the did with the PS4, then that puts the price at at least $500/£450.

It's not that I'm expecting a £250, but that's the goal to reach, like how the PS4/Xbox one S has reached £250. The closer they can get to that figure, the better it will sell, and if they can't launch a console at that price, they normally release a slim version at that price later on. If the lockhart is a slim version at launch, then the target price is £250, if it launches at much more than that, it will miss the mass appeal it will be after.

@PretendWorking That's my bad.

So what do you think the XSX, XSS, PS5, and PSAD will cost?