Industry insider Moore’s Law Is Dead estimates the next-gen Xbox could be priced anywhere between $999 and $1,500.
Reliable industry insider Moore’s Law Is Dead has published a detailed cost breakdown for Project Helix in a new video, and the numbers suggest aggressive pricing will be difficult to achieve. According to the leaker’s sources, the AMD GPU succeeding the 9070 XT — which shares the same chiplet as Project Helix‘s dedicated RDNA 5 graphics card — will be priced at around $550 at the component level. Adding an estimated $100 for the CPU and $200 for RAM brings the hardware cost alone to approximately $850, before factoring in Microsoft‘s margin. The insider considers $999 the theoretical floor, achievable only with profit-sacrificing pricing that he views as unlikely. His most probable estimate sits around $1,200, with the ceiling potentially reaching $1,500.
On the performance side, Project Helix is expected to outpace the PlayStation 6 by 30–40%, with ray tracing performance projected to be twenty times greater than the Series X thanks to the RDNA 5 architecture, which makes each compute unit 65% faster than its predecessor. Despite this hardware advantage, the insider believes most consumers will still gravitate toward the PlayStation 6, with Project Helix more likely to appeal to players looking to transition from console to PC.
The pricing stakes are significant. Multiple industry analysts have already noted that if Project Helix fails to perform in the market, it could be Microsoft‘s last attempt at console hardware.
Source: Tech4Gamers
