fillet on 21 February 2013
| Slimebeast said: I seriously doubt the RAM is gonna cost more than the CPU, motherboard and GPU combined. Even if that 8GB GDDR5 memory might be costly today it's not going to be by the time when PS4 launches. |
It is.
GDDR5 has come down loads over the past few years but it's still very expensive and is likely to stay that way for years to come until faster mainstream RAM becomes available. 8GB of it is shed loads and shows a damn serious commitment to the PS4 by Sony have to admit, well done them for that, but there's no understating the cost of it.
I believe it's actually a conservative estimate, 12 months isn't going to make a massive difference to price, as the 12 months before this didn't either.
In all seriousness, RAM has been rock bottom for a couple of years now and could even go up in price by then, it does - and has, happened.
