Phil Spencer talks Scorpio price – "Price to be more inline what people expect from consoles".

Phil Spencer went on a trip to Syndey where he sat down with NZGamer to talk about Project Scorpio and Xbox One S. While a lot of things said in the interview were publicly known, a particular question stood out about the 4k streaming capability and how many regions can support this feature and here’s what Xbox Boss said:
“It was one of the reasons we made the physical media decision that we did,” he says about the Internet speeds in countries like Australia, and New Zealand. “I know that if you look at usage on the box, you would say ‘Hey, everybody is watching YouTube, everybody is watching Netflix. Why would you do anything physical?’ But I do think markets where bandwidth capabilities and caps, and cost is prohibitive. So we wanted to make the decision that there would be physical media. I think for us games and the native rendering of 4K games is going to be important for Scorpio, which obviously alleviates any kind of need to stream. But I think we’ve been conscious that not everybody lives in a bandwidth happy, uncapped world.”
In regards to 4k physical disk drive, it isn’t confirmed yet for Scorpio, Phil claims “We’ve seen great adoption of it with the S. People seem to like it, but those kinds of decisions aren’t the decisions that we announced at E3 (…) That’s not a push-back, I’m just saying those are the kind of decisions that can kind of bind later, what the drive is. But it has been really great to see how people have responded to the S, and it seems like we would want to continue to ride that option.”

“So you can see the price of the S today. When we designed both of these, which we kind of designed it in parallel. We thought about the price performance of what we wanted to hit with the Scorpio, relative to what we were going to be able to do with the S. So that we would have a good price continuum, so people wouldn’t look at these two things as so disconnected because of the price delta (…) So I think you will feel like it’s a premium product, a premium console. And not something, anything more than that. So I wouldn’t get people worried that this thing is going to be unlike any console price you’ve ever seen. We didn’t design it that way. That said, the opening price point for the Xbox One S, and the different hard drive sizes that is a critical part of this whole product. When I think about it as a product line, you should expect the pricing to kind of be in line with that.”
Project Scorpio is scheduled to arrive Holiday 2017, and Microsoft says it is the most powerful console ever.
See the full interview here.