The price of future video game consoles from Sony and Microsoft It is one of the best kept secrets in the industry today. Companies hope to offer an attractive price to players, while offering updated hardware and are shown as the best option in the competition. So none want to reveal the price yet and probably Let's not know until E3 next year.
However, this does not mean that analysts do not intuit where the shots will go … Daniel Ahmad, Niko Partners analystHe has recently offered his opinion on the price that PS5 and Xbox Series X could have. The well-known analyst recently acknowledges that consoles could reach the market at a price that is somewhat more expensive than many players think. And, we must remember, the consoles will arrive with very updated hardware.
And it is that the analyst does not get the accounts: "Struggling to see how PS5 / Series X can be launched at less than $ 400 given the preliminary list of known specifications." For the analyst, the announced technology would already cost only 50% of its cost, without having all the assembly, design, promotion campaign, etc. "Only the CPU / GPU, the GDDR6 memory and the SSD with NVMe interface would already be well above 50% of the construction price
The analyst says that selling them at that price would mean losses or a null profit for companies.