Microsoft Confirms Memory Costs Impact Next-Gen Xbox Pricing

Asha Sharma, executive vice president and chief executive officer of Xbox, has gone on record saying that yes indeed, "memory costs will impact pricing" of Microsoft's next-generation game console. Not maybe, not might, but will. Not that this is any surprise, given everything that has already transpired, but it serves as a sobering reminder that we're not yet out of the woods and may not be for quite some time still.

This is not the fault of Sharma or Microsoft, of course, but the result of an AI-driven memory shortage that has caused prices to spike things like PC DRAM (especially DDR5 memory), laptops, handhelds, game consoles, and more.

Sharma's statement came during a recent interview with Game File, in which she fielded a question about the impact on the memory crisis and releasing timing of Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console.

"All of these things are an ...