Microsoft stopped building Xbox One consoles in 2021. The company announced this to the US technology magazine The Verge. Accordingly, the last copies of the Xbox One were built at the end of 2020. The consoles that are currently still available are leftovers.
The decision was made to stop production of the Xbox One in order to be able to concentrate on the Xbox Series, a Microsoft spokeswoman told The Verge. Microsoft is thus pursuing a different strategy than Sony: the Playstation manufacturer recently confirmed to Bloomberg that production of the PS4 will continue in 2022 as a supplement to the PS5.
Sony originally wanted to end production of its console at the end of 2021, wrote Bloomberg. Instead, one million more consoles of the PS4 generation are to be manufactured over the year. The production of the PS4 can largely run parallel to the production of the Playstation 5 without taking capacities from the newer console. Both PS4 variants use 16-nanometer combo processors manufactured by TSMC, while the PS5’s chips are manufactured using a 7-nanometer process.
Xbox One S still in stores
Microsoft had already confirmed the production stop of the Xbox Series X and the disc-less Xbox Series S before the launch of the Xbox Series consoles. However, it was not previously known that the standard version of the Xbox Series S will no longer be produced.
While Xbox Series X/S, Playstation 5 and Playstation 4 are practically sold out or are offered at higher prices, you can still buy an Xbox Series S as normal from online retailers – the Series S costs 270 euros at Amazon. The more powerful Xbox One X, on the other hand, is no longer available from online retailers.
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