The next-gen Xbox won’t cost you $1,800. It can’t. Can it?

An Xbox Elite controller. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Fortune dropped a bombshell study connected the aboriginal of gaming this week. According to the publication's Microsoft insiders, the adjacent Xbox is projected to outgo betwixt $1,200 and $1,800 erstwhile it arrives successful 2028.

My archetypal reaction: The adjacent Xbox is dormant connected arrival. It's DOA.

My 2nd thought: Microsoft knows radical won't wage that much. It couldn't perchance complaint that overmuch wealth if it wants adjacent gen to beryllium a success. "I wouldn't merchandise it astatine all," erstwhile Microsoft exec Mike Ybarra recently said.

My 3rd thought: Didn't Microsoft already say retired loud that it knows radical won't wage that much?

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