Coming from Moore's Law Is Dead on YouTube — a tech insider who we've covered here on the site before — Microsoft has apparently not accounted for potential RAM cost increases that are likely to come as a result of a new deal struck between OpenAI and several manufacturing partners. The YouTuber says that Sony, for example, has stockpiled RAM supplies at a lower cost, while Microsoft hasn't employed the same tactic.
And, with this OpenAI deal taking up to 40% of the world's supply of DRAM off the market for other buyers, this could cause issues for any company that needs to purchase it for manufacturing; such as Microsoft. At the time of posting no price increases have been announced by Xbox, but Moore's Law Is Dead says Series X|S prices "could go up soon, or supply could just entirely dry up". Microsoft "didn't plan ahead at all, apparently", the YouTuber claims.
We've thrown the video up above if you'd like a bit more context on the source and this big RAM debacle at large; they talk about Xbox roughly 17 minutes in. Also, down below is a quick pointer towards some Black Friday console sales if you're interested, and another topic we covered via Moore's Law Is Dead recently - one that goes into detail on some of Microsoft's potential next generation plans.
