Some countries has taxes included at the price shown. The US is different, because different regions have different taxes (even between cities), thus tax is calculated at checkout time. Furthermore, you are constantly informed how much taxes you are paying.
That is a huge benefit in keeping taxes lower.
It's not a matter of time, Sony is doing it right now. I'm in California, and I'm not charged tax on Xbox.
From what I gather, Sony is basically adding sales tax to every state, hence why people use the UK.
Edit: @GT67
You got me there. Although, it's Oregon.... Lots of trees and nothing else. Not for me except maybe Portland.
Phil Spencer is such a positive force in the industry! Go Phil!
If I'm upgrading, I would rather pay $499 for a beast of a console, than a half hearted upgrade at $399. If cost was a concern, I would just jump on an Xbox One S instead.
That said, with Crackdown 3 and cloud based physics, this console is going to be a beast of performance. Unleash the monster!
Phil Spencer just said:
"‘For people who think that there’s some massive AAA game sitting in my back pocket that I haven’t announced yet that I will at E3 and ship it this Fall- it could happen."
Enough said! Bring on the monster!
A lot of doubters is about to eat crow soon. I can almost taste the salt that will flow. Most powerful console with most powerful cloud processing for games?
Epic monster!
This is the single biggest change to how we do multiplayer game in a long time, and will give the sort of boost to the Xbox One that no other console can do thanks to the cloud. This level of destruction and awesomeness won't even be possible on a high end top of the line PC.
Super excited for Crackdown 3.
Xbox under Phil Spencer is a really positive force in the industry now and very classy. No underhanded trolling or sly jabs.
Yeah, I would love to see Nintendo shoot back. Something along the lines of "Get the best rated gamer ever, Zelda on Nintendo Switch".
Do we really want that kind of low behavior? No thanks! Disappointed in Sony.
No need, the quality ones will automatically float to the top!
A curated experience limits possibilities and potential hits.
I'm expecting a high resolution 4K ready texture pack for Scorpio beyond different performance targets. It will probably be a downloaded content.
The support is coming from PC. You can already start seeing an influx of games coming especially due to Xbox Play Anywhere and UWP. It's happening and no stopping that.
My expectation of Scorpio is that it is going to be the best console platform to game on. So far it is heading in the right direction with Xbox Live constantly improving above the competition, mixed reality is coming, and Scorpio being the most powerful console yielding the best multiplatform game experience.
All we need is a few surprise announcement of games that are coming *soon* and I'm pretty dang happy.
Beyond that everything that comes out of P...
It has already been confirmed Mixed Reality is coming to XB1 and XB1 S too. See update at the bottom of this article!
https://www.neowin.net/news...
Can't wait for the monster though! XD
@edmix:
but we are being forced eventually. Just with far less rights than the original Xbox One DRM when that inevitably happens. It's coming, and coming fast.
Let's see, of the ones already announced Crackdown 3, Sea of Thieves and State of Decay 2 is coming!
Then there are the best version of multiplats with hopefully 4K texture packs (due to 12GB of RAM), and already released games. I'm sure there will be some awesome surprises during E3 as well. Can't wait!
Also, I would be sad if PS5 had this, because I hope that by 2020+ Sony would use something more advanced instead of using 2017 technology.
This needs to be in Scorpio! Scorpio! Scorpio!
It is actually remarkably quite specific. We now know it will come to some other platform. That platform may be XB1!
rain:
The pool is full of water, but it doesn't matter, because all you will ever see is a desert. The mind will see anything if you believe it enough.
ty:
Anyone not from Sony is lying in your eyes, so I think you have a different standard for lying than the rest of us.