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The verdict from a report that IHS will release later today was shared exclusively with AllThingsD: The combined cost of parts and manufacturing everything that comes with the Xbox One the console, the Kinect and the controller comes out to $471, or about $90 more than the cost of Sonys PS4, which debuted last week.
The Xbox One sells at retail for $499, giving Microsoft little, if any, room for much of a profit for now.
At least $75 of that cost is derived from the Kinect motion-sensing add-on that comes bundled with the console. (The PS4 has nothing comparable in its box.) But the biggest cost driver inside the Xbox console, said Andrew Rassweiler, the IHS analyst who led the teardown team, is the microprocessor from chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices. Like a similar AMD-made chip found inside the PS4, this one is a combination of a CPU and a graphics-processing unit (GPU) that handles gaming graphics. At an estimated cost of $110 about $10 more than the AMD chip found in the PS4 its the single most expensive component in the system.
The other major silicon inside the Xbox One (shown in an exploded view above) is the memory. Unlike the PS4, which used higher-end GDDR5 memory chips, the Xbox One contains older more common and less costly DDR3 memory. Memory chips came from SK Hynix, and added about $60 to the cost, or about $28 less than whats found in the PS4.
The parts used to assemble the console itself not including the Kinect, the controller or anything else cost $332, Rassweiler estimated, meaning that the other items add about $139 to the cost. The controller costs about $15, and contains Wi-Fi and Bluetooth components from Marvell Technology.
http://allthingsd.com/20131126/micr...-more-to-build-than-sonys-ps4-teardown-shows/