 Hey everyone, Nathanne Nurempel-Jance here. A little different today. Obviously, I am in my kitchen dining area recording from the laptop with my portable setup here. So sorry if the video quality is not as good, the audio quality is not as good. I have some things, though, that I want to talk about. And that is in particular to the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X in terms of the pricing. So first off, let's get into the pricing on the PlayStation 5. So there was an Amazon France rumor about the PlayStation 5 that has come out. That kind of debunks the original Play Asia listing. There was a 699 Play Asia listing that is clearly not legit and not real. But what does seem to be legit is an Amazon France listing that has the 4K Blu-ray version at $499 or I guess 499 euros, about 556 USD or whatever. And then obviously the all digital version is 100 euros less at 399 euros. Now, we assume that this will probably translate to like 499 USD, 399 USD, because that's kind of how the euro transition from their pricing to our pricing ends up working for game systems. They don't do like a one-to-one thing where it's, you know, oh, it actually goes up to 556 USD, so it's gonna be $556. But that appears to be what the PlayStation 5 pricing is likely going to be. And that's fine, actually. To me, that doesn't even sound that bad. That sounds reasonable based on what we've seen of the system, based on what we've seen of the games, based on what we know about the SSD and all of the various tech in it. That's still a really good price and you're not gonna be able to build a comparable gaming PC that can perform as well as the PlayStation 5 at that level. And this is in addition to the fact that games will be fully customized for this hardware, which is something you don't get on PCs, since games on PCs have to consider a wide range of hardware from $200 budget laptops all the way up to $3,000 plus super rigs. So that is really, really great and I think an excellent price point for the PlayStation 5. But there's one problem with that and that's a report coming from WCCF Tech and actually coming from the Beyond 3D forums from the guy named Eastman, who has proven in the past to have inside information from Microsoft. And this is where the competition between Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 are gonna be extremely fierce and Microsoft is gonna do something very daring this time around. So speaking on the Beyond 3D forums, Eastman who has proven in the past to have access to Microsoft inside our information, again this all comes from WCCF Tech, revealed that the Xbox Series S, the system they haven't talked about yet, will be half the price of the Series X and it will come in a small form factor that will be an all digital console. The insider doesn't know the final pricing of the Xbox Series S and thus the pricing of the Series X. But he has heard that Microsoft is prepared to drop a $400, so a $399 Xbox Series X. Now we know what we're gonna be hearing about the Xbox Series X and the big Xbox blowout next year. But from what he has heard from all of his sources, July isn't just about Sony. July is about the industry and what they want it to be in terms of a night of mic drops. They're gonna come hard with the strategy they've been building up for years, including buying out a whole bunch of game studios. And they want Google, Amazon, Apple, Sony, and even Nintendo to be shooken up. So expect a series of mic drop moments followed by the price being the key and all this. So it'll kind of drop in that price at the end of everything. That's why I think Lockhart is a key device in the strategy. It's a low cost gateway that they can control to make sure the hardware can handle the new compression techniques they all employ you with XCloud, which is again, their digital game service. The plan for Lockhart is to get into a price category where they were never able to hit before and I will be based on listening between the lines and they expect Lockhart at some point to make it into a fire TV size. Also the size of the first Lockhart is gonna surprise everyone. Probably like a Mac mini. You guys have never seen a Mac mini. I'm thinking something like that. To me, this is incredibly interesting to me that we're even talking about these kind of price points because Microsoft has the ability to drop a low cost system as it were. They have the ability to do that. And I'm pretty thrilled that Microsoft's even considering such a thing because they are the company that doesn't need the income. They don't need their systems to be profitable. So that being said, I really want to know what your guys' thoughts are on all of this. This is kind of an interesting perspective for me because I think PlayStation 5 is a great value at 499. But it's hard to argue when Xbox Series X is dropping at 399 and every Xbox Series X has a 4K Blu-ray player. Only if you buy the budget system do you get an all digital thing and that's not even the same system as an Xbox Series X. So this is crazy to me and obviously the big thing is the games. PlayStation has always knocked it out of the park game after game after game after game after game. What's going to happen this time around? I don't know. But I'm very curious to see because Microsoft bought a bunch of studios and we have yet to see what most of those studies are working on. Anyways, I am Nathan Robledance from The Tanner Prime. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. Let me know your thoughts on this pricing trader down in the comments below and I'll catch you in the next video.