Penello specifies why X1vsPS4 performance difference is overstated

[Captain_Tom]

Funny.
I never said that GDDR5 wasn't more difficult to manufacture, but maybe you have missed the fact that the PC is transitioning over to DDR4?
Not sure if you were around (Or too young to remember) when the PC transitioned from EDO Ram to SD Ram or SD Ram to DDR Ram or even DDR to DDR2 and the transition from DDR2 to DDR3.
Every single time that occured the prior DRAM technology increased in price as the new DRAM standard became available (Which decreases in price, despite always being more complex than the DRAM version before it), why? Because essentially all production of the older DRAM ceases, demand for the older DRAM remains and thus the issue of Supply/Demand comes into play, prices rise on the older DRAM, prices fall on the new DRAM because people aren't buying it up in droves.

It's all simple logic really and history is there to provide plenty of proof.

Yeah I got my 8GB of 2133 MHz RAM for $42!!!  Now it is litterally double that in price!  

 

Look at DDR2 now.  It is $200 for 8GB of 667 MHz.  So basically DDR3 prices should get up to 5x the price they are now within 5 years.  Oh and GDDR5 isn't insaney expensive in all honesty.  The 2GB DDR3 7730 is in fact $20 MORE than the 1GB GDDR5 version...