Xbox Series S Referenced Once Again Via Xbox Game Pass

We've really gotten to the point where Sony and Microsoft have waited so long to announce stuff that official products and 3rd parties are leaking the announcements.

We have now officially reached the point where the month after next the Xbox Series X and PS5 should be released......

Crazy to think we are 2 months away from console release and we don't have a price or even an official reveal for the Series S!
Instead we find nuggets of info out like this.

Honestly : Microsoft, Sony...

This is beyond ridiculous, now.

Covid or not, if your products are to launch in the next two months, give us a date, a price, and everything we're entitled to know.

I'm really tired of this game. Really.

It will be revealed at some point but seems pointless, yes it may be cheaper but being such a cut down machine, the all digital PS5 will be the more powerful machine and my not cost much more? Microsoft should release an all digital Series X as with Game Pass it’ll be a winner.
But as we have no idea what pricing is going to be on anything at this point it’s all guesses and speculation...

It is getting tiresome this constant game of chicken.. one of them just announce the price please.........

Microsoft won't announce Series S until they reveal the price of Series X and S, they don't want to mess the price up like with Xbox One.

Sony didn't reveal specifications until Microsoft did and they say that they overclocked the GPU at the last minute. They didn't reveal the console until Microsoft did and they don't want to say the price until Microsoft does. Sony is willing to launch their console without price! Why is Sony so insecure about PS5?

@BlueOcean cuz Sony is looking to make money or at least break even on the console and MS isn't. PlayStation is one of the biggest money earners for Sony and they expect a large demand for their console so they don't want to be loosing $50-100 on millions of units. MS is good with making money on PC, game pass and hopefully soon with xcloud in the Asian markets so a loss on the box to get people into the ecosystem is worth it. MS clearly surprised and rattled Sony with their specs and now Sony is scared to announce the price cuz Phil keeps stating they won't be beat on power and price.

We'll find out about it within a month, if it's real. MS and Sony really are taking their time to announce specifics with their consoles. I guess they figured if Nintendo could do it with the Switch, they can do it with their consoles. Lol

Reveal it already..

@Krzzystuff Yeah, Microsoft wants to match or undercut Sony because they can, even with a more powerful console so they should wait for Sony for once. Sony backpedaled regarding DRM with PS4 and let Microsoft mess the launch up, Microsoft should wait this time. As soon as consoles are shipped, price will have to be revealed because retailers have to pay and know the margin benefits. Is that why Sony is launching PS5 a week later than Microsoft? LOL

I know this year has been much disrupted by COVID-19, but at times it has felt like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all been doing some kind of announcement boycott without telling anyone why.

Maybe they are looking to copy Sega's hugely successful no-warning Saturn Western launch...

@BionicDodo but we all know it's coming, we basically know the dates....just no prices. I hope that MS just announces their most aggressive pricing strategy on Sep 24 and we just get this over with. Realistically if they have a healthy stock and especially the Series S they will sell like hotcakes because Sony is doing a lottery for its most active players cuz they know it's going to be in short supply. Launch early, competitive prices and healthy stock and they are getting a massive head start. Thing is it's all speculation on price and availability. Sony is posturing for expensive system with limited supply. I just want to stop playing on PC...I'm not a PC guy at all and it's hindered my enjoyment...plus I want to play Ryse

Release Series X for $€400 and Series S for 200. Aggressive pricing, I know, but that way it's impossible to be undercut by Sony a week later because I suspect that the disc-less PS5 will cost 400 and according to developers PS5 is launching one or two weeks later.

@BANJO And then the month after that we'll finally get to find out what they cost, and what specs they have!

@Grumblevolcano Third parties always leak stuff. But official first party products are hilarious. I mean we're actually at the point they've witheld information so long and held back announcements so long that their own actual inventory of old stock depleted and current stock and promo materials were produced expecting this stuff would already be known now. We have a marketing campaign with food products for a game that isn't even going to exist during the campaign. Accessories are promoting consoles that officially "we don't know exist."

@Krzzystuff Maybe Phil's taking a page from the OG XBox launch. They subsidized that thing so massively they spent most of the 360 profits just trying to dig out of the hole it built. But then they squandered it all with Kinekt and the One and kind of have to start at zero. If they treat SeX with the same mindset as the one where it's about, basically, getting an NT4 Xeon box under the TV even if they have to pay you to take it..... They could maybe reverse the tides. But that's one heck of a gamble....if they do that and it goes South, corporate will demand the end of the division and won't let Phil talk his way out of it again.

@BionicDodo Sega's no warning launch was only slightly about getting to market before Sony, and mostly to basically ride roughshod over their own business partners and sell their first party games before the third parties arrived and pocket all the money. AFTER they gave a later date to the third parties to have their games ready. And AFTER they told retailers the later date for launch, then handpicked a few retailers that got the earlier launch, thus gutting sales at the other retailers. At least XBox has no first party games, so they can't do the former And the latter probably won't be the case either.

Of course Sony still won by just saying "cheaper!" the same day at E3....same as with X1. So in that regard, that's why we're doing the infinite game of chicken that I'm convinced we'll see these things on shelves at Best Buy with a tag saying "ask an associate for pricing details."

@NEStalgia Microsoft are certainly leaving it late to reveal launch details, as are Sony...
Good news is that time is now quickly running out with the consoles having to have been made/boxed and ready for launch shortly so I expect information to be revealed shortly....

What if...it was just a rebranding of the current gen that would be announced?

Unlikely, as we had some evicences in the past referring to the newer generation hardware IIRC...but...again...what if?

@NEStalgia Haha, at this point I half expect the shelf labels to say "Take the console home and we'll let you know what you owe us once we've seen what the other guys are charging for their box."

@BionicDodo "Zero interest? Buy now, pay later! (once we find out what we're paying for the master case!)"