Phil Spencer Says The Xbox Series S Exists So It Doesn't Have To Drop The Series X's Price

Oisin Kuhnke
8/24/2023

Xbox head Phil Spencer has said there aren't any plans for the Xbox Series line of consoles to receive permanent price drops further down the line.Speaking to Eurogamer at Gamescom, Spencer was asked about whether or not there are any plans for current Xbox hardware to lower its price considering that component costs generally reduce over the lifespan of a console. Price drops have been pretty common for previous generation of consoles, but Spencer said that that won't be the case for the current generation, as the Xbox Series S was designed with that in mind."The prices aren't coming down. We see it now, and that's why we did Xbox Series S," Spencer said. "I know there's a bunch of questions like, 'what is it doing?' We wanted to make sure we had a sub-$300 console because we want to grow, and we think an entry level price point for many new families or players coming into the market is going to be important. And then people say, 'Well, now you've created complexity, because you have two specs in the market.' But then we get into this world of 'I want to mid-gen refresh, so we should create more complexity by creating more devices."Continue Reading at GameSpot...

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