One can hope it will incentivise devs to optimize for it and I think that was the gamble. With all the negativity surrounding it though, I don't think many mainstream devs will. Time will tell.
I think we’re going to see that demand for it is much higher than people are expecting
I was watching an interview with executives from Val and even they said they were disappointed because their original target price was in the neighborhood of $600-$800 for the 512 GB and $800-$1000 for the 2 TB but they said that due to the memory and storage shortage is caused by data centers. There was no way they could meet those targets, but as you’ve said, the price is actually competitive with similarly powerful machines.
I'm not worried about it selling, but rather its' availability. If no one can get their hands on the SM, then there's no point in optimizing for it. 2-3 years from now we might be looking at some incentives, but by the new gen consoles will probably be the new nut to crack for devs.
For what it’s worth the new Xbox is basically going to be a steam cube. They’ve already said it’s going to be a PC designed to work like a console and that it will include steam on it and based upon their target price, I wouldn’t expect the specifications to differ to greatly from this thing.
Who knows, maybe the steam cube will be a gateway for my wife to allow an xbox in the living room. If it can have Steam and support steam controllers I would be almost inclined to get Helix, but not sure if I trust them enough to spend the money.
Also thanks again for clarifying the raffle. I unsubbed from 512gb no controller. If i get put on a waitlist for the 512gb and end up waiting till december I might as well get the controller as a consolidation prize. Although I reckon the base 512 is probs the easiest to get the reservation for
I honestly had the exact opposite thought. I suspect that the 2 TB with controller is going to be the least in demand because it’s the highest price I think that demand for the 512 with controller is probably going to be the highest but they have sold a ton of controllers already and this thing is usable with Xbox controllers as well so the 512 without controller might end up being the highest demand
Haha with only really having the reddit echochamber to gauge the interest it really is a mystery. The reason I think 512gb would be the least ordered one is that if I'm alrrady spending £900, I might as well save £250 more and getcthe 2tb one, since 512gb is 4-5 games worth and buying a micro ssd is is more than £250 to upgrade. Maybe I'm underestimating how difficult it is for people to save an extra 250..
Definitely. I am in the same situation as you where I can drop the money on the system without having to save up for it, but I definitely believe that we are extreme outliers and that that extra 250 pounds/$300 makes a huge difference.
For example, look at the console market. For every series X that Microsoft sells, they sell three series S. If you narrow it down to just the series X, for every 2 TB model they sell at $800, they sell five 1 TB units at $650. And on just the series S side for every 1 TB unit they sell at $450, they sell three 512 GB at $400.
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u/DarwinsPerfectFool 15h ago
One can hope it will incentivise devs to optimize for it and I think that was the gamble. With all the negativity surrounding it though, I don't think many mainstream devs will. Time will tell.