Xbox Consoles to Get 2nd Price Hike in Less than Six Months, Controllers and Headsets to Maintain Current Prices for Now

And here I thought the cost to manufacture would go down. Perhaps this ks what happens when you dont own your own manufacturing for any component? You dont reap tne benefits of owning the constituent pieces and can never have paid for manufacturing hardware and processes allowing you to drive prices down.
 
Grimlakin said:
And here I thought the cost to manufacture would go down. Perhaps this ks what happens when you dont own your own manufacturing for any component? You dont reap tne benefits of owning the constituent pieces and can never have paid for manufacturing hardware and processes allowing you to drive prices down.
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This is also what happens when a massive AI bubble is driving up prices for wafers, on top of die shrinks no longer reducing cost per transistor. Things aren't going to get better until the AI bubble bursts, and even then they won't get much better.
 
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