Trade-In Program To Be Expected For Xbox One Project Scorpio
Good news for those who are wondering how the heck they will possibly afford a new Xbox One Scorpio next year. Microsoft understands this will be an issue for many and wants to make the transition from Xbox One to Project Scorpio as seamless as possible. They plan to do this via a trade-in/trade-up program.
With 6TFLOPs of performance and a new semi-custom Polaris + Zen AMD SoC to enable 4K gaming, Microsoft’s Xbox One Project Scorpio won’t be cheap. We predict it will likely fall in the $599-$699 range. Fortunately, Microsoft wants to offer an Xbox One trade-in program to help with some of the cost and make Project Scorpio more accessible.
“We want to make that transition as smooth as possible,” Xbox Services manager Dave McCarthy told the Daily Star. “Some of our retail partners today do trade-in programs and that’s definitely going to be partnerships we continue to move going forward. We’ll try partnerships with our retail partners to smooth it even more with trade-in programs and things like that.”
This is great, but keep in mind we have no idea how much the Scorpio actually costs, and how much Microsoft will give you for your Xbox One.
As it stands now an Xbox One nets you around $100 bucks trade in at most retailers but we anticipate special promos surfacing closer to Xbox One Project Scorpio’s Holiday 2017 launch. Hopefully we’ll get more than a couple of hundred bucks towards the trade-in. Time will tell.
Project Scorpio shares the Xbox One games library and plays all existing Xbox One games, so your entire collection isn’t completely useless after you trade in your system. This is further good news for those considering the upgrade.