shikamaru317 said:
I find it strange that Series X would be selling at a loss still 2 years after launch. Sony claimed it's more expensive disc drive PS5 hit break even point more than a year ago, and while Series X has a larger chipset than PS5, increasing silicon costs, as well as a more expensive split motherboard and probably slightly more expensive RAM, Series X should also have a cheaper SSD, a cheaper controller, and a cheaper cooling system than PS5. A year later you would expect Series X to also have broken even just like PS5 did. A loss on Series S is less surprising, but a $100 loss on it still 2 years after launch seems way too much. Afterall, it's chipset is nearly half the size of the Series X chipset, substantially reducing silicon costs, it has a cheaper regular motherboard, it has half the SSD size, and it has 6 GB less RAM and slower RAM. |
There is a corporate lawyer on youtube named Richard Hoeg who has actually explained how this works, but the tl;dr is that you cant actually make definitive statements about cost comparisons between each manufacturer without knowing how each company conducts their internal accounting, which is different from company to company. The PS5 and the Xbox Series X could hypothetically cost the exact same amount to develop, manufacture, and distribute, but both companies could report wildly different degrees of profitability based on internal accounting methods. I classical example of this is so called "Hollywood accounting", whereby films that make millions or even billions of dollars can be marked down as having incurred substantial losses for tax purposes.
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