Lockhart's existence in general is super weird.
1.) It's a hard sell. Considering how weak it is, it has to be quite a bit cheaper to be remotely worth selling.
2.) MS has completely ignored its existence. At this point MS is pretty much the only one not talking about it.
2a.) And this is super weird compared to series X. MS has been talking about SX for almost 2 years, and yet if the August rumor is true, it'll be 3 months between announcement and launch. The only console with a shorter turn around that I know of is the PS4 Pro.
3.) The specs make it an even harder sell. Depending on how MS goes about it. You either have games that can't run on the XSS, or if they require relative feature parity, it seems like PS5 would get a better version. Pretty much the best case scenario is that devs have to do more work and get their games to run.
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On a related note, it's also super weird that MS announced monthly news and apparently literally missed their first month of that news.
1.) It's a hard sell. Considering how weak it is, it has to be quite a bit cheaper to be remotely worth selling.
2.) MS has completely ignored its existence. At this point MS is pretty much the only one not talking about it.
2a.) And this is super weird compared to series X. MS has been talking about SX for almost 2 years, and yet if the August rumor is true, it'll be 3 months between announcement and launch. The only console with a shorter turn around that I know of is the PS4 Pro.
3.) The specs make it an even harder sell. Depending on how MS goes about it. You either have games that can't run on the XSS, or if they require relative feature parity, it seems like PS5 would get a better version. Pretty much the best case scenario is that devs have to do more work and get their games to run.
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On a related note, it's also super weird that MS announced monthly news and apparently literally missed their first month of that news.