Theory on how the PS4 is stronger AND cheaper.

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catofellow said:

Scoobes said:
I doubt the PS Eye is the only reason. The Eye is only $60 retail so it seems highly unlikely that it'd add a further $100 for the asking price of the PS4.

Microsoft decided to make one giant chip of an APU with CPU, GPU and ESRAM in a single chip. The ESRAM on its own takes up 1.6-2.15 billion transistors (out of the 5 billion for the chip). With a chip of that size and complexity it's no surprise the manufacturing costs are going to be high. Keep in mind that a single 7970 GPU (which is AMDs top line GPU) contains 4.3 billion transistors and at release retailed for a little under the cost of a X1. That's without all the added extras of optical drive, PSU, HDD, case etc.

This logic doesn't work. As I stated earlier, look at all the phones and tablets that went up $100 in price from 8 gb to 16 gb just last year.   This hasn't been a $100 dollar cost difference for several years now. 

Sony would not price a console at $460.00.  People are overthinking costs here.  Consoles for the most part launch at $100.00 dollar increments.  IMO $499.99 would be most likely price point.  The camera would not be sold seperately in this scenario and we wouldn't know the MSRP was only 60.

You honestly don't think Sony would launch at $449.99 if they could? In the UK it's £349, the 360 at £279.99 so there's no reason to stick to the 100 increment.

You're making huge assumptions based on tradition.