Vi har sett ett uppenbart trendbrott denna konsolgeneration. Medan konsolpriserna tidigare sjunkit efter hand som generationen fortskridit, så har de tvärt om bara gått upp nu. I en ny intervju med Eurogamer uttalade sig Phil Spencer om detta fenomen, och hävdarde att konsolerna överhuvudtaget inte kommer bli billigare denna generation.
Phil Spencer:
"For us, thinking about where our hardware is going and reaching more customers, price point is important. But you're not going to be able to start with a console that's $500 thinking it's gonna get to 200 bucks. That won't happen."
Orsaken till detta, sade Spencer, beror på en totalförändrad situation med hårdvarukomponenter.
"Because the core components that you use - you're used to Moore's Law shooting up and to the right - but your components... you can't buy them anymore as a hardware maker because nobody's making that kind of RAM or other components. It's not the way it used to be where you could take a spec and then ride it out over 10 years and ride the price points down. It's why you see console pricing relatively flat."
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