A PS4 equivalent rig for $500.00?

[theprof00]

walsufnir said:

Muffin31190 said:

walsufnir said:
The comparison is a bit off. PS4 costs more than $400 to make and assemble and has discounts on every part because of mass production, you buy parts where the stores want to make money with their products so of course it is close to impossible to reach it currently.
You should wait until AMD releases their new APU generations which should be close on par with PS4 and perhaps go for steam-os.
But who buys systems for specs?!

Sill I heard it costs roughly $470 to make I believe, but I found an Interesting article about this exact comparison.

 

Yes but the costs sum up with what I wrote in my post. The comparison is rather invalid.

Again, people should wait for future APU releases from AMD and will have a better PS4.

I think the point was that as a consumer, you're only spending 400$. It's not 'how close can we get to the price equivalent of ps4', it's 'how close can you get to the pricetag'.

This would be for the purpose of showing what's a better value.