Next PlayStation and Xbox Are Expected to Launch at $400

<p>The next-gen systems from Microsoft and Sony still have a little ways to go before being officially announced&comma; but thanks to their time spent at CES this year&comma; Baird Equity Research has made a few predictions about the systems&period; Specifically about their price&comma; launch windows and what will make up the guts of the hardware&comma; as reported by <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamesindustry&period;biz&sol;articles&sol;2013-01-14-USD400-price-point-for-next-playstation-xbox-consoles">GamesIndustry International<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For the information we always seem to to have to wait on&comma; like release dates and pricing&comma; Baird Equity Research believes that both systems will launch between &dollar;350 and &dollar;400&comma; with the next PlayStation launching in October and the Xbox in November&period; It should be noted that Baird&&num;8217&semi;s Colin Sebastian warned of early production problems for the PlayStation console&comma; but specific reasons why this would happen weren&&num;8217&semi;t given&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; high end PC components will be utilized in both systems&comma; a mix between physical and digital distribution models will be present and voice controls&comma; motion controls and multi-media will be enhanced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;Moreover&comma; a PC-based architecture &lpar;Intel chips in the case of Xbox&rpar; should have a number of advantages over custom-developed silicon&colon; for one&comma; the learning curve for software developers will be shorter than completely new technology&period; Second&comma; the cost of production and retail price points should be lower than prior console launches&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This all still comes down to us waiting for E3 this June&comma; which may occur <em>after <&sol;em>Sony and Microsoft announce their respective systems&comma; but it appears that this E3 will be quite a thing to see&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Given the fragile state of the console game market&comma; we expect the E3 trade show in June will take on added significance&comma; most likely providing the industry with the first public opportunity to examine next-generation hardware&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Sebastian&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrace;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamesindustry&period;biz&sol;articles&sol;2013-01-14-USD400-price-point-for-next-playstation-xbox-consoles">GamesIndustry International<&sol;a>&rcub;<&sol;p>&NewLine;