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| solidpumar said: Also consider that the gpu cost should be around 100 of the production cost, so being able to charge 200 more would essentially make them able to buy a gpu essentially 3 times more expensive, enough for 2.5x times more powerfull. ( I know will be a APU, but is analogos) |
That's not how it works, since yields will decrease proportionally to increasing die size and also far less will fit into the same round wafer. Double the size of the APU and you have something 3.5-4 times more expensive. Not to mention the need for more, faster memory, else you will create bottlenecks... and more cooling, which demands an entire redesign of the power supply unit and cooling systems. This is specially significant since consumer electronics have rules concerning power consumption and heat output, and a product above certain wattage will have to comply to more costly, specialized regulation.
It's not impossible, mind you, but the extra production cost would be far closer to, say, $400 than $200. And that's for a difference in performance smaller and far less noticeable than that of the PS4 vs. the PS4 Pro.
