Experts have calculated the cost of the components of Xbox One

Research company IHS in connection with the release of the new generation of consoles works tirelessly. Most recently, they calculated the cost of all the parts that are used in the assembly of the Playstation 4, and now they have got into their hands a brand new Xbox One, which was immediately disassembled into components and carefully studied.

So, how much are all the components of the Xbox One, if you buy them separately? IHS carefully calculated the cost of every single detail of the new Microsoft console and concluded that its total cost, including also the cost of the new Kinect and game controller, is $ 471. This is about $ 90 more than the cost of the components of the Playstation 4 (the price of its components is 381 dollars), which went on sale two weeks ago.

Xbox One is priced at $ 499, and given that the cost of components, the researchers did not lay the price for packaging, paper booklets, transportation, insurance for marriage, marketing and other invisible moments to the consumer, Microsoft probably loses some money from selling each console. Accurate numbers to this effect from the Redmond company have not been reported, but Sony previously shared with reporters the fact that they would lose about $ 60 on each Playstation 4’s sale, trying to later cover the loss by selling games.

So where do these dollars go? Approximately $ 75 is worth the new Kinect sensor, which comes bundled with every Xbox One. The AMD CPU costs $ 110, which is $ 10 more than the cost of a similar processor for the Playstation 4. The CPU, by the way, is the most expensive component of the console. Hynix-made DDR3 memory chips cost Microsoft $ 60 (Playstation 4 GDDR5 memory costs Sony $ 28 more). The rest of the parts used to build the Xbox One, with the exception of the game controller, cost $ 332.

The controller itself costs the company about $ 15, which is rather modest, given its retail price of $ 60. An external console power supply that looks like a brick costs $ 25. The complete headset cost Microsoft $ 10, and the Xbox One assembly at the factory costs about $ 14.

According to experts, Microsoft will lose about $ 1 billion in sales of Xbox One this year. Over time, the price of components will fall and the console will be released for self-sufficiency, and then the price tag on it will automatically decrease by 50-100 dollars. But it will happen no earlier than 1-2 years.

Based on allthingsd.com

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