expiredMoondeal22 posted Dec 01, 2023 09:22 AM
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expiredMoondeal22 posted Dec 01, 2023 09:22 AM
Select Walmart Stores: 1TB Microsoft Xbox Series X Console with Diablo IV
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I'm really confused why these are going for so cheap. If it were just Microsoft trying to sell consoles at a loss to get subscription revenue, then surely they'd be selling it cheaper at their own store. Now that we see it on Walmart and Amazon and for so long, there must just not be much demand there.
Walmart gets volume deals that nobody else does. It's always possible Microsoft sold them all of the remaining inventory at a nice discount.
The cost for initial production of the newest nodes is extremely high ($10M+) just to order the masks. The only caveat here is that if AMD can simply take an existing chiplet and put it in the XBox, they could potentially provide increased efficiency without a new mask set. Otherwise, Microsoft would need to sell 10s of millions of units to make up for the high initial costs of doing the die-shrink.
All of this to say, I would guess that we won't get something like the XBox One S, which was smaller and more efficient. Instead, we will likely just get the next generation of consoles in 2025 or 2026. You're right to say that if anything changes it will be the SSD. SSD prices have fallen dramatically and going to 2TB would be an easy refresh from a design standpoint.
I'm really confused why these are going for so cheap. If it were just Microsoft trying to sell consoles at a loss to get subscription revenue, then surely they'd be selling it cheaper at their own store. Now that we see it on Walmart and Amazon and for so long, there must just not be much demand there.
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Confusing comment.
Well I guess their move is to do nothing ?
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