Microsoft’s lawyers claim to know how much Project Q will cost, but how it got this info isn’t explained.
You can expect to see a lot of secret information being made public thanks to Microsoft’s legal battle with US regulator the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
As a reminder, the FTC is looking to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard so the Xbox company is doing all it can to prove why the deal should go through.
It’s already given away that Bethesda’s Indiana Jones game was originally a multiplatform title, and it apparently also knows how much Sony plans to sell its Project Q handheld for.
Project Q was unveiled just last month, following a series of leaks, with Sony announcing it as a device that lets you run PlayStation 5 games via remote play.
No pricing details were shared at the time but buried in documents supplied by Microsoft’s lawyers, there’s a footnote alleging that it’ll be sold for under $300.
In the UK, that would put it at less than £240. If accurate, this makes Project Q substantially cheaper than either model of the PlayStation 5. For comparison, the digital edition is £389.99 while the model with a disc drive is £479.99.
This shouldn’t necessarily be taken at face value, though. How Microsoft’s lawyers could have obtained such information is unclear and it could just be speculation on their part.
All they write is ‘Sony is anticipated to release a handheld version of PlayStation5 later this year for under $300.’
Microsoft has made claims about Sony’s release plans before. Last year, in a filing to the UK’s Competition and Market’s Authority, it said that Sony’s Wolverine game would launch in 2023.
Since then, Sony has provided no such launch window for the game and, given that Spider-Man 2 is out in October, it seems incredibly unlikely that Wolverine will launch this year too. Especially since both games are in development at the same developer.
Since Project Q is meant to be out this year, Sony should be sharing an official price soon. So, it’ll be interesting to see if Microsoft’s claims prove accurate this time – and if they are, how did they know?
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