Analyst Predicts Price of PS5 and Xbox Series X

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According to Daniel Ahmad, Senior Analyst at Niko Partners, the PS5 and Xbox Series X may be a bit more pricey than some PlayStation and Xbox gamers think. The prominent industry analyst recently took to to Twitter, noting that he's currently struggling to see how either the PS5 or next Xbox will launch at $400 or below given what we know about each console and their respective innards. As Ahmad astutely points out, the CPU, GPU, NVMe SSD, and GDDR6 memory by themselves would cost more than half this price, which suggest neither console will be positioned at said price point, as this would mean both would have to be willing to take a heavy lose.

Now, as you will know, console makers take loses up front all the time. For example, the PS4 wasn't selling at a profit at launch. However, it's one thing to eat a little bit of money at the jump in order to push hardware, but to sustain considerable loss at the gate is less common.


In other words, it's not impossible either console could ring in at $400, just unlikely given how much of a loss it would be for Sony and Microsoft. Yet again, the PS3 cost about $800 to make and was sold at $500, which is why Ahmad isn't ruling out the possibility entirely.


Ahmad's speculative and insightful thread continues before concluding with a hypothesis of how much the Xbox Series X costs to make, which is $460 to $520. This is just materials plus manufacturing of course, and doesn't include all the money spent on research and development. That said, Ahmad points out for now this is just an estimate, and thus shouldn't be cited while at the bookies.



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Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/12/24/ps5-playstation-xbox-series-x-price-cost/

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ZemaPosted:

Hopefully it's around 400-500 USD