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@RPE83 Well yes, that's why PS5 stock ran out in minutes and XBox's in hours (or days for Series S).
Demand just isn't there for XBox

Looking at this from Europe is bizarre.
On Amazon, the Series X was available for over 3 hours, and the Series S is still up over a day later.
By contrast, both PS5 models ran out in under 10min.

@Dezzy70 The survey was actually taken before Halo was shown... those numbers are probably worse now

For anybody doubtful of the accuracy of a PS community poll, Resetera and Neogaf also show PS5 at 80% preference.

While obviously a placeholder now, I think you could expand with some recommendation for external SSDs to swap game in and out

@Cutmastavictory look, love the game, but it's close to 1 minute on each hunts.
The Plat guide actually recommends getting an SSD in your PS4 to speed things up.
Still, excited to jump back come December (I stopped soon after reaching the Guiding Lands)

I love MHW, but I'm saving all these updates for when PS5 finally kills those damn load times.
One blemish on a basically perfect game

"What if Sony stops supporting Cross-Buy?" was as reasonable a concern as "What if Sony fills the box with murderous bees?"

@pip_muzz Well, let's hope Sony has some event for games soon.
Some sort of "Console and Gameplay Reveal" if you will

Makes sense: the Yakuza devs get MS money then go on to sell most of their copies on PS4/PS5.
Win-win situation

@carlos82 I apologize in advance as this is going to be a long post.
The console and phone markets are wildly different and comparing the two is frankly dumb.

Phones have an extremely wide market, with very different performance needs depending on the kind of users.
Everyone you know needs a phone, but clearly we need different phones.
Cost, screen size, battery life, camera quality, memory size, brand, apps you need to run all influence which kind of phone you need.
I would be screwed with a 150$ cheapo phone, but that's perfect for grandma.
𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡.

Graphics card (and PC setups in general) vary wildly for similar reasons.
Resolution, framerate, game-type, costs, ultrawide usage, loading all influence the setup that works for you.
My laptop is fine because I use it to read pdfs, but it doesn't run games at all.
A product that would appease both needs couldn't exist.

With consoles, the requirements are a lot more simple: something that runs games reliably enough and lasts long.
A person that buys Fifa and COD and a person that buys over ten games a year both need the same level of performance and reliability. A PS5 will work great for both of us.

Still we might have different prices in mind, and the PS5 might be too pricey.
However there's still a great solution to account for cost: 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.
If you build reliable hardware, you can wait until it's on sale, buy used, get slim models, whatever.
The PS5 will be just as good a purchase, arguably better and certainly cheaper, in 2023 than in 2020.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐒: they have a terrible track record with this.
Bought the X1 on day 1? Congrats! You bought their most expensive yet worse hardware of the gen. They literally discontinued it.
MS has three SKUs available right now, both cheaper and/or better than Sony's, yet they are getting beat by both them and Nintendo.

𝐀 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝟔 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬? 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐆 𝐗𝟏 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰.

So, who's the Lockhart for?
Somebody that desperately needs next gen right away, but has no actual interest in any next-gen features; or exclusives games since MS will release none for up to 2 years. As long as it's cheap.

Oh, and no disc-drive, the ONE thing people who play games for cheap and then trade-in need.
It's doa.

@carlos82 The base systems weren't sold as worse versions of the "real" next-gen systems.

Plus, both X1 and X1X have been way cheaper than PS4 and Pro yet sold much worse.

I find the idea that there's a huge number of people ready to jump on console gaming if they are just given an option that's worse in every way ludicrous.

Worse GPU, worse CPU, and potentially an HDD are going to make this the worst next-gen system by miles, and severely impact SeX games development.

If that wasn't enough, the lack of a disc-drive is all but guaranteed to kill it with the "low-spend gamers" it's supposedly aiming for.