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Austin Evans questions the sticker price on a $1,800 Xbox

His console analysis joins an imported PS5 Slim teardown in an eight-upload week.

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Everyone's Wrong About the $1800 Xbox

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0:27Austin discusses a reported Xbox handheld targeted for the 2027 holiday season.
2:05He explains Microsoft's potential benefits from using its own Xbox operating system rather than standard Windows.
4:10He argues subsidies could bring the consumer price below the reported $1,200-$1,800 home-console cost range.
5:57Reported Game Pass changes could introduce à la carte subscription options.
7:42Austin examines AMD's FSR 4.1 support and its implications for console visuals.
9:03An Xbox supply-strategy job listing prompts speculation about future physical games.

Would a next-generation Xbox really arrive with that price tag? Austin Evans argues that the reported hardware cost and the price a customer pays are not necessarily the same thing. In "Everyone's Wrong About the $1800 Xbox," he points to Microsoft's history of subsidizing consoles as a reason not to treat the upper estimate as a settled retail price.

The analysis has drawn about 403,000 views, making it the week's most-watched new upload. Austin starts with reported handheld plans before reaching the home-console price discussion, then moves through possible Game Pass changes, AMD upscaling and clues about physical games. These are a mixture of reported plans and his own predictions, not a finished product announcement.

Viewers are doing their own purchasing calculations. Some say they would keep their gaming desktops rather than pay four figures for a console; others point out that PC graphics cards hardly offer an escape from expensive hardware. The recurring question is less about which machine wins than how much gaming equipment should reasonably cost.

Sony supplies the hands-on counterpoint. For "The New PS5 Slim is SLIGHTLY Better," Austin imported a unit from Ireland to investigate what he describes as a quiet revision without a changed model number. It's currently drawing views faster than the Xbox analysis, with a companion upload, "There's a Hidden New PS5 Slim…", also gathering attention.

The broader week stretches from Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark to the Rivian R2 and iPhone Duo. Across the catalog, Austin added nearly five million views while subscribers held steady. Daily viewing is moderately above his usual pace. Among nearby technology channels, Phone Repair Guru and Kyle Krueger had much larger viewing weeks; Austin's weekly total was close to JayzTwoCents', with console costs and small hardware revisions giving his own week its shape.

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$1,800? Nope. I'll stick with my gaming desktop.
@thundergato84See it on YouTube
Can’t even say that’s why I prefer my pc, I gotta pay $1000+ for a gpu
@dtcase2158See it on YouTube
The more new consoles with insane prices come out, the more I hold onto my pc with all I got
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