Signs of a new PS5 start appearing in stores

[DonFerrari]

Pemalite said:

DonFerrari said:

Not sure MS would be able to drop since at the same time sony was mentioning that PS5 without disc was losing about 50USD and the version with disc was about profitable we had MS mentioning they lost 100 to 200 per console sold (and considering that most of what is inside S is on X, the difference being on the GPU and disc mostly and that couldn't account for the 200 difference in price, I would say that they were losing 100 on X and 200 on S).

I would need to see updated costings before I believe that. A lot has changed as far as commodity component prices go since the consoles launched 3 years ago.

Sure a lot changed, but Phil Spencer talking about the amount lost is far recent (and of course it would be hard to see MS official information updates on the cost per console) - https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-loses-as-much-as-200-on-every-xbox-it-sells-phil-spencer-says/1100-6508748/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/4/22609150/sony-playstation-5-ps5-loss-profit

So PS5 was breaking even almost 18 months before MS was still losing almost 200 per console.