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Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts | Slowed manufacturing advancements are upending the way tech progresses.
Op-ed: Slowed manufacturing advancements are upending the way tech progresses.
Those price reductions would often also come with internal tweaks and external redesigns—smaller or slimmer or otherwise improved versions of the console that made them superior to the originals (though you would occasionally lose a lesser-used feature or two along the way). But one major factor, both in the price increases and in the reduction in drastic “slim”-style redesigns, is technical: the death of Moore’s Law and a noticeable slowdown in the rate at which processors and graphics chips can improve. Sony and Microsoft have marginally tweaked the hardware inside the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles since launching them, but as die shrinks have become rarer and more expensive to pull off, the benefits have become a whole lot less noticeable.
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