Soundwave on 09 January 2013
Why does a console launching in late 2013 have to be "gimped" anyways for crying out loud? Blu-Ray drives today are cheaper than CD drive was for the Playstation in 94, DVD was for the PS2, and certainly Blu-Ray for the PS3.
A $130 (retail) Radeon 7770 GPU pumps out 1.28 TFLOPs, a decent CPU is even cheaper.
As long as Sony doesn't put ridiculous power consumption and casing size restraints on the PS4, there should be no problem delivering a system that's a huge step above the PS3, there's still a lot of time left for tech prices to drop to boot.
