Why do people think the Ps5 costs more to manufacture?!

[Bofferbrauer2]

Conina said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

The SSD is the main culprit. The size is actually the same between the two (Sony calculates in Gibibytes while Microsoft used Gigabytes), but Microsoft could use cheaper chips and SSD controllers than Sony for their respective targets. Potentially by a lot considering parts get ordered way in advance. Plus Sony is using more smaller chips, which will definitely cost more than what Microsoft is using.

They are not the same.

Xbox Series X = 1 Terabyte = 1000 Gigabyte = 931 Gibibyte

PS5 = 0.825 Terabyte = 825 Gigabyte = 768 Gibibyte

Xbox Series S = 0.5 Terabyte = 500 Gigabyte = 466 Gibibyte

I thought the difference came just down to using Gibibytes and formatting, my bad then.

One thing I haven't mentioned and that nobody knows is if there's some overprovisioning, and then to what extend, to keep the performance high even when the storage is pretty full on both Xnox and PS5. Guess that's something we'll only find out from a teardown after release...