During a round-table discussion at CES, AMD’s CEO Lisa Su told TechRadar that consoles work on a “five to seven-year strategy, that’s the lifetime for these consoles. Without talking about any particular party’s console–there will be opportunities to cost-reduce. Consoles tend to be very sensitive to price point, we see that as price comes down console volume goes up, and that will afford an opportunity to do that in this cycle.”
While we don’t know when these consoles will become cheaper, it’s obvious that they will as the years go by. It’s great to see that we have confirmation though. Imagine if these consoles cost even $50-100 less. Even more people would buy them over devices like the Apple TV and other boxes. Consoles have the ability to properly take over living rooms but the price has to be right. We’ll just have to wait and see.
Source: SegmentNext
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.