Gilgamesh on 21 February 2013
Going by Ethomaz thread which said the total cost to be around $320 - $400 in parts
- APU (CPU/GPU) - 85-90
- 8GB GDDR5 - 110-140
- OS Chip (supposedly ARM based) - 12-18
- Video encode/decode chip - 8-12
- Blu-ray drive - 18-25
- Hard drive - 38-50
- I/O - 9-12
- Wireless chip + antenna - 4
- HDMI+HDCP - 11-15
- Other - 25-35
Total - 320-401
And PC gamers coming up with a $600 price tag for off the shelf components in a very similar PC rig.
Processor – AMD FX-6300 – $130 / £105
Motherboard – Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 – $80 / £52
Memory – 8GB Crucial Ballistix Tactical LP – $53 / £56
Graphics – 2GB GeForce GTX 660 – $230 / £178
Storage – Seagate 500GB HDD – $53 / £43
The rest – $50
Total price: Around $600 / £430
If we take in the fact that clearly Sony will get a discounted price from these companies since they'll be ordering tens of millions of these parts and not to mention Sony always sells their video game systems at a loss should a $399 price tag be reasonable?
From what you guys seen so far on the PS4 what do you consider a reasonable price?
From what I seen that the PS4 can do so far, $399 would be a day one buy for me, $399 - $499 would be pushing it.
