Anybody think 8 gb of GDDR5 is a mistake for PS4

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Andrespetmonkey said:

ninjablade said:

Hynad said:

I doubt that 8GB of GDDR5 is in any way comparable to the PS3's CELL + BluRay costs.

i'm just thinking is the 4gb of ram worth it, will many games actually use it, they could have went with a much better gpu instead of the 4gb but as some one said i guess it was too late, here is the price estamation for ps4 parts from beyond3d.

 

PU (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

The PSV components cost $160, yet it broke even at $250. So including all the other associated costs the PS4 should cost Sony about $500 each. 

Yeah, a console costs more than just the sum of its parts.

As much as I'd like PS4 to be $400USD or less, I expect it to be $450-500.