Microsoft seeks a new business model for Xbox in the face of the increase in the price of DRAM and SSDs

After all the commotion with the new prices and subscription plans of Xbox Game Passthe company also has no good news regarding its hardware. Not only is it facing a multitude of users who have deleted their Game Pass subscription, but it also anticipates that the costs of console storage hardware Xbox For the next Christmas season they will multiply by 5 compared to a couple of years ago.

Xbox faces a sharp rise in storage and memory costs

This suggests that Microsoft needs to renew its hardware to adapt to the current crisis caused by the Artificial intelligenceand the prices it is leaving on storage chips and DRAM memory. According to what was published by Xbox itself and sent to all employees, Xbox needs a new business model to be able to supply all the consoles that users want to buy, while maintaining the commitment to Project Helix.

Microsoft is looking for a new business model for its Xbox consoles

The words make it clear, Xbox needs a new business model and alliance to obtain the necessary hardware, which seems to also affect the new Microsoft console. Xbox is paying 4 times the price of storage components which was just 1 year ago and foresees another increase for the Christmas season. The statement also refers to the costs of the DRAM memorywho have followed a similar path.

Consoles with less storage and new financing formulas

Microsoft is exploring new business models to sell the consoles, which may include new financing plans to get one of them in a more flexible way, new subscription packages that include a console or even make consoles with less storage.

At the moment this new strategy is a mystery, but we have to hope that we will soon know the path that Xbox will take even in the face of its new Project Helixwhich will supposedly be manufactured by third parties.