EricHiggin said:
Tariffs are going to add some cost, but nothing compared to the savings of mass manufacturing. This is part of the reason why PS5 can remain cheaper. They're still having parts mass manufactured for them due to strong sales, so the pricing for those PS5 parts remains very low. Non mass manufacturing vs mass manufacturing, can cut the cost of parts for a product in half. Now MS shouldn't be facing quite a doubling in price due to far less parts being needed because of very poor sales, but it's going to be considerably more expensive than it was back when XB Series sales were decent. |
Tariffs is not the only thing affecting the price increase of the XBox the falling value of the dollar which was also mentioned in this thread is also adding to the price increases. The PS5 and XBox Series X are pretty much the same hardware so they have pretty much the same basic costs to manufacture. Mass manufacturing does not make that much of a difference in cost especially if you have rising costs of goods hence, we have had no official price cuts in consoles since the seventh generation of consoles.
