| crissindahouse said: In just one console generation some people just stopped to care about how console manufacturers make money with hundreds of millions of sold games, in-game transactions, services, extra hardware for that console and other stuff...congratulations. Why do we somehow compare just the hardware itself? Consoles are supposed to offer much more bang for the buck because of their many other revenue streams for their sold consoles. They weren't supposed to be a decent deal just compared to the pure hardware costs of a PC. |
Consoles have always been more or less like this regarding hardware costs (cheaper than the sum of their PC components to a moderate extent).
The thing is that chip manufacturing costs have been skyrocketing in the newer nodes. It isn't going to be sustainable anymore to keep the same console prices unless they drastically change how their services work or opt for outdated hardware like Nintendo.
Besides, this is a premium product, so of course they're making money directly on it. It's not a mass-market console.
