nightsurge on 22 February 2013
| ethomaz said: I'm just copying a thread in GAF / Beyond3D.
Total - 320-401 * These figures are preliminary, and do not include assembly costs, power costs, cooling or shipping as the final design has not been shown and can't be estimated at this time * Thanks GAF@Hardknock |
Let's see what was forgot:
- motherboard - 25-30
- DualShock4 controller - 30-40
- Headset - 5
- PS4 Eye thing - 60-70
- Casing, cooling, packaging, storing, shipping - 25-35
Not to mention I feel like their APU estimate is way off. The cheapest AMD retail CPU for 8 cores is $160 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103961) and that's not even an APU! Meaning that price does not even include the GPU part. Considering the most expensive APU is $130 retail with only a quad-core and HD 7000 series graphics, I am thinking that an 8-core APU with HD 7000 graphics of decent power would be minimum 120-130 even after the Sony bulk discount. Granted this price will shrink massively over the first 3 years, as will all parts, but I think a more accurate estimated total would be:
- APU (CPU/GPU) - 85-90 120-130
- 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
- motherboard - 25-30
- DualShock4 controller - 30-40
- Headset - 5
- PS4 Eye thing - 60-70 (may be lowballing this, even)
- Casing, cooling, packaging, storing, shipping - 25-35
Total: ~$500-615
Even if you take out their OTHER $25-35 since that may have covered some of the stuff I added, that leaves it at $475-580. Granted, this is no where near as bad as the PS3's initial costs, but Sony will initially have to take a loss if they want a $400-450 price point, or launch at $500 or more again.
