LordTheNightKnight said:
Squilliam said:
Yay I get to go first and I love speculating on hardware.
My best guess is something like this:
RAM:
1024 MB of GDDR 5 this will probably yield around 50-80GB/S bandwidth. The best balance between cost/performance is around that level and it follows the current RAM size / bandwidth ratios of current generation systems and the expected trends for next generation systems. Doubling this would require 8 chips which would be cost prohibitive and won't yield good performance/price ratios as the bandwidth wouldn't scale with any increase in capacity.
Optical Drive:
4-8* Blu Ray, what else can I say?
CPU:
X86/PPC equivalent to a fast Core 2 Duo.
GPU:
~between an HD 4850 or HD 5770 in outright performance, feature set could be DX10 or DX11.
Storage:
Something like 8GB of Flash.
lol, my explanations died out. Anyway the RAM thing probably needed the most explanation and the rest sort of feels like 6 of this compared to half a dozen of the same. Different terminology yielding the same result.
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Would that all cost $300 or less?
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Yes.
Counting just variable costs on a per unit basis and including what I would call reasonable royalties they'd probably be able to put it together for less than $150 and certainly no more than $200. They don't use 'withered technology' for nothing afterall. If Microsoft can make money selling an Arcade for $200 then Nintendo could sell the NES 6 for $300 especially considering the comparable materials costs. The major differences are the I.P costs with Blu Ray, newer technology and the controller.
