There’s also a price prediction by a well-known analyst.
The release date is hidden in the first video below, but we also made a screenshot as well. That text reads X10S101317. The S is short for Scorpio (and the S logo was trademarked by Microsoft – we’ll get back to it later…), and 101317 could be the potential release date: October 13, 2017. A Friday, no less. The Nintendo Switch also launched on a Friday, so it makes sense. (There was also a 6>4 on a tent in the teaser during an amusement park scene, which is pointing at the Scorpio having 6 TFLOPS in comparison to the PlayStation 4 Pro’s 4 TFLOPS performance. We did not screencap that.)
Michael Pachter, a gaming and electronics analyst, talks about the Scorpio’s price in his latest podcast. He says that Microsoft knows its customers well to not outprice itself from the market, and pricing the Scorpio for 399 dollars would keep the Redmond-based company relevant in this console generation. He added that Sony might respond by chopping the PlayStation 4 Pro’s price to 299, or even 249 dollars! (Which means the PlayStation 4 Slim could be 249, or even 199 dollars. Impressive.)
The Verge discovered that Microsoft filed a trademark on June 6 for the S logo, four days after „Direct Reality”.
What will that be? We’ll see at E3.
