Rumor: PS5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S Launch Date and Price Leaked - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 September 2020 / 5,078 Views
The launch date and prices for the upcoming next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft have been leaked, according to a rumor and posted by Twitter user Roberto Serrano.
Microsoft will be launching their next-generation consoles one week before Sony. The Xbox Series S will launch on November 5 for $299 / €299 and the Xbox Series X will launch on November 6 for $499 / €499.
Sony will launch both versions of the PlayStation 5 on the same day, November 13. The standard edition with the disc drive will be priced at $499 / €499 and the Digital Edition will be priced at $399 / €399.
As always this should be treated as a rumor until the official price and launch dates are announced by Sony and Microsoft.
What we officially do know is the Xbox Series X will launch in November and the PS5 will launch this Holiday season. The Xbox Series S has yet to officially be announced by Microsoft.
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— Roberto Serrano' (@geronimo_73) August 18, 2020
❎ #XboxSeriesS 299 $/€
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So price leaks from Sony AND Microsoft AT THE SAME TIME? Yeah, totally believable. ;-)
And who are you anyways? I bet you don't even live in Bari!
This could well be accurate. But, it's not a leak. It's just some dude using very simple deductive reasoning to come up with something that makes sense.
Yes, totally buying info from unkown source. Just because he used quite probable prices and even if get they all right doesn`t mean he had the information.
Prices do seem reasonable so this could be true. Or it could be the work of an attention whore.
It doesn't matter what the ps5 price on this website the ps5 could cost 1000 bucks more and you guys would still say its a win for Sony lol bias at its finest
Who is this guy that we should take him seriously? Does he have any track record with leaks? That said, the only part of this that would kinda surprise me would be the digital PS5 being a full $100 cheaper after all.
This is this guy's third tweet in the same thread, dating back to May 30, each with a different "BREAKING NEWS" announcement with a different guess of the release dates. Pardon me if I take this rumor with a sizable grain of salt.
This is an odd news piece. This guy basically says: "BREAKING NEWS" followed by "I think," then ends with "to be confirmed."
if true, that would be a win for Sony.
Agreed. Series S and Series X have completely different GPUs/memory and are targeting different markets (1080p and 4K). PS5 Digital and PS5 "regular" are the exact same, just one without a disc drive. XSX has to be as close in price to the PS5 Digital Edition as possible.
Whit all due respect, not trying to offend Xbox fanbase or cause console wars, If this is true than the $399 discless PS5 feels like a great deal better than the discless Series S. I mean, $100 is a big deal, but you just can't compare Rumored Series S spec. and PS5.
Ps5 is just another level far above in power, if the diference is just $100 than Series S will have problems here ( i think MS can make it $249, let's wait and see.)
Also Series X vs. Ps5 at $499 looks like a good fight. Let's see how these two fare agains each other soon on Digital Foundry, will Series X GPU advantage shine? Or Ps5 will fare better whit "magic SSD" and more advanced I/O?
AI agree with you to a certain extent but there is something we need to keep in mind, and that is the holiday deals. The Series S will be the first one to hit the coveted $199 price. At that price, it becomes an excellent option as a secondary console.
Microsoft talked about being more aggressive this time around. These price would not be aggressive at all.
Not being 100 more expensive is already a lot more aggressive, and Series S that price is also aggressive, you can bet there isn`t a 200 difference in the cost of the GPU for MS. They are eating a lot of loss to have that price gap.
Also I think it's fair to consider that people interested in the Series S are not likely to spend as much on games (on average, obviously somebody can prioritize games more than a 4K TV or console to display at 4K). I mean, MS still might do that, but the economic rationale would be weaker IMHO.
I imagine series S is their entry door for GP so they hope to make that money there instead of selling sw, and with combined price that they will attract a market that didn't buy consoles before, and then expect it to be more than offset the loss of sw sales.
Sure, although I wouldn't go so far as to say this attracts non-console gamers, it seems more about people who would wait for 1-2 price drops, although there could be a gain there if they aren't already on Xbox services. It just stands to reason this audience will spend less money over all, so the average Series S sale would have less attached profit than average Series X, which doesn't make it not worth chasing (and may be most efficient way to chase that market, VS waiting to catch it with a price drop) and growing the total "generation" market has value in itself (not that MS is pushing generation exclusive games at least at this point).
I guess that sounds too negative on Series S, and I don't want to, or denigrate anybody inclined to play on one. Honestly I think the benefits of 4K vs 1080p aren't vastly impactful over console style games, and obviously all XS# games will be playable on both. I haven't gotten into VR at all, but I somewhat feel that is where the increased power of full spec next gen will be most impactful, but obviously MS isn't going there at least for now. I was just mostly speaking in narrow terms of "X subsidy ensures Y higher attach revenue per console" and I expect Y to be smaller for XSS than XSX.
Don't forget the option to buy a Series S with GP without any upfront payment, that is where they may try to get casuals that weren't interested in consoles before. People love subs.
So if I make a random new twitter account, and start posting "RUMORS!", and "BREAKING NEWS!" Will I get an article posted about me on vgchartz? Seriously, does WDA do any vetting of sources, or does he just take whatever he sees and makes an article out of it? This is amateur hour journalism here.
Not exactly reputable, but seems like these dates and prices could be in the realm of possibility.
dont count ur chicks as i always say,
wait for the real news to pop,
getting eggcited over nothing is a tragedy haha!
This is an odd news piece. This guy basically says: "BREAKING NEWS" followed by "I think," then ends with "to be confirmed."
Nope, a disk drive isn't going to be a 100 less. Some unknown guy on twitter, brilliant.
Your not understanding the situation that's why. This isn't as simple as disc drive = $100. If a person buys the digital edition they are 100% locked into buying all their games from the Sony store only for the whole generation. That means every game you buy Sony doesn't have to give a cut of that to retailers. That is worth more to Sony than just the cost of a disc drive. That's more money in their pocket every time you buy a game directly from them. Which is all I do so I do plan on going disc less.
I forgot to add this also means no more used games. Which Sony made absolutely no money from. So yea this is worth $100 to Sony.
Well said, was about to say this. Sony is very willing to give you $100 off to be locked into their store and not able to use used games.
And also means a way to fight both low spec Series S and expensive Series X.
This is pretty much what I expect. The S will be a very nice entry level console :)
The disc-less version being 100$ would also be amazing. I may buy it day one alongside my Xbox Series X (was waiting for Horizon D.) if it is the case! I'm 100% digital, so it is just perfect for me to have to pay less for it ;-)
Anything under 500 us dollars for ps5 is hard to believe.
I hope it's true $499 vs $599 probably mean CAD $200 difference.
$299 for XSS seems a little high though, if the rumor are true regarding performance I would expect a $299 version to come with a disc drive. A discless version should be $199-$249 or else I don't this version leverage much interest.
Not sure how this is newsworthy lol. The guy is just making a guess. Its pretty much what I'm expecting, except that Series X will be $599.
If you're just going to compare crude speed of SSD, I think Series S does fine in that area, since it doesn't need to load as large of textures in the first place, "half the speed" may very well be proportionately better than a system playing 4K games. Of course that is in terms of "crude speed" and doesn't address the advancement in I/O controller and access granularity etc.
On the whole I don't see this price structure being too successful, but I also don't see it being under successful. In MS' strong market the US and I guess Brazil (aided by local assembly tax benefits) it has claim to both highest GPU spec and lowest price with 1080p performance. I don't think it will gain much in Sony strong market (or claw back that much marketshare from Sony in US). The lowest price point might seem successful in poorer countries, but if the all digital PS5 isn't much more for "full spec experience" I see that being successfull because the market there isn't really the poorest people it is "middle class". Markets where MS already has strong presence it could play better though. I think the biggest impact on relative market share is determined by how much Sony continues it's advantage in MS "home markets", it started this gen coming from behind in terms of US market, so larger part of market should be likely to consider buying it to start this time around. I do think MS' offering will be reasonably appealing to their home markets though, so tough to say, and "holiday launch window" isn't really meaningful in big picture IMHO since it's easily swayed by "hardcore fans" that don't tell long term picture. (I believe MS had rough parity with Sony for Xbone/PS4 launch despite latter outselling it eventually by more than 2.3:1)
But yeah, I don't really take this source seriously, besides his (lack of) credibility, he doesn't even attempt to establish why this is "news", it's one thing to keep sources secret, but not even broadly characterizing them (i.e. are they from Sony/MS, publisher, retail?) or even how many sources it comes from is just not "news" material. For all we know his "sources" could be a tarot card reader communing with "the spirits".
