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AnthonyW86 on 21 February 2013
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SpartenOmega117 said:
thismeintiel said:
SpartenOmega117 said:


Yes I understand that but I really think Sony should have gone maybe 4gb ddr5 for gaming purposes and maybe 4gb ddr3 for everything else. Sure in the long run it may be beneficial but wasn't the cell supposed to be beneficial in the long run too? I'm just thinking that Sony might be digging themselves in a financial hole again. If Durango specs hold true then it is likely that Microsoft can easily launch for $100 less than ps4 which may be fatal. If Sony plays hard ball and decide to match whatever price Microsoft sets then they will lose quite a bit of money for each unit sold. 

Fatal?  The PS3 launched for $200 more than the 360 and 1 year later.  1 1/2 years later in EU, one of Sony's most important regions.  How did that turn out?  Sony is about to pass the 360 sometime this year (probably in 2-3 quarters).  So, now we have the PS4 launching the same year as the NeXbox, and it might be $100 more expensive (I'm guessing $50-$75 will be more accurate).  MS doesn't stand a chance in EU and Japan.

Yes it would be fatal. The probably reason. Why they sold a ton of ps3 early anyways was due to the fact that I was the successor to the ps2, the most successful home console of all time. Even with that Sony dug themselves in a hole with that price. Or did you forget the yeary $100 price cut, millions of dollars in the red, the lost market share, etc. I'm sure that even a financial analyst working at Sony would call the ps3 a glorious failure. They did manage to turn it around in the end though. But that doesn't take away from the fact that the ps3 is a failure. 

I really don't think that gddr5 is that more expensive than ddr3. 2gb gddr5 cards only cost $5-8 more than their 1gb counterparts, and that's at retail. I'm expecting the PS4 to be $50 more expensive than the next xbox, and maybe even with very cheap PS4/Vita bundles.

Also the PS3 was $500 for the cheapest model. It uses XDR memory wich at the time probably costs more than GDDR5 costs now. The Blu-Ray drive was very expensive to produce back then, up to $180 for the drive alone. Besides Durango is rumored to have a Blu-Ray drive aswell. Also the Cell was expensivel, probably more expensive than the cpu the PS4 is going to use.