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BlkPaladin on 11 April 2012
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zero129 said:
flagstaad said:
zero129 said:
This might be why Sony doesn't seem to be going all out with their PS4 (If the rumors are to be believed), as they want to make profit on it from day 1. Anyway i hope they can pull them selfs out of this mess.

I think it would be in their best interest to not sell a high powered console at a loss, maybe not with profit to be competitive, but at least not with a loss. I think the "leaked specs" could generate a nice and powerful console that can be sold between $400 and $450 without losing money, but I only hear complains that it should be a higher end machine at least 10x more powerful than a PS3 and Sony to take a $100-$150 loss on it.

Wit the rumored specs we could buy the parts and build a system using them specs for less then $400

CPU: A8-3850 APU price $120 (Sonys price about $60-80)

GPU: HD7650 $80 (Sonys Price about $30-50)(But we would need to use the 6650, as im about 90% sure you can't buy the 7650 as it seems to only be in some laptops etc, but the 7650 is just a re-branded 6650 so it doesnt matter).

4GB DDR 3 ram $20 (Sonys price about $10)

BluRay Drive $60 (Sonys price about $20-30)

Hard Drive 350GB $50 (Sonys price about $20-30)

Case $30 (Sonys price about $10-20)

Total for us to build $360 and total for Sony to build $150-220

So as you can see if the rumored specs are real it won't be costing Sony much at all to build a system with them specs. And if they Launch with a price of $300 they will be making a nice profit from day 1.


Motherboard, Power Source needs to be added to that. Plus any communication hardware such as wireless/bluetooth. Plus the case seems kind of low, since they are not going out and getting a PC case they have to have one made for the machine in the style they want.

 

On a side note those are the specs for my current laptop. Which costed about $1000 direct from HP. There will be about two years so the price sould go down to about $450-$500 by then. (I bought it in Feb '12 and I'm guessing a Nov '13 launch so 23 months.)