“To focus on Xbox Series X/S production, we have stopped production of all Xbox One consoles at the end of 2020“Walker would have said, to better let dealers sell the remaining stock, while making room for the new generation of machines, also launched in November of the same year.
This confirmation from Microsoft echoes a recent article by Bloomberg, where we can read that Sony would finally consider producing an additional million PS4s in 2022, while the initial plan was to end the manufacture of PS4s. this machine at the end of 2021.
On the Microsoft side, the company seems able to meet the demand for Xbox Series S, which is much easier to find in stores than other next-gen consoles, whether it’s Xbox Series X, or PlayStation. 5 competitor. A situation that would not only be linked to a question of demand, but also of production capacity. Given the architecture of the machine, Phil Spencer had indeed affirmed at the end of 2020 that Microsoft was “able to produce more Series S die than Series X“, to better ensure the transition with an entry-level model turned towards dematerialized.
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