mutantsushi said:
XBone is not remotely that much cheaper to produce than PS4, not even including Kinect. I don't get how people fantasize about XBone dropping in price while acting like PS4 will not also drop in price. Any price cuts beyond dropping Kinect2 will be largely due to cost decreaeses in manufacturing, which are nearly identical for both OEMs considering they have the same CPU/GPU supplier withequivalent die size (XBone slightly larger AFAIK). PS4 is more powerful not because Sony massively subsidized it, but because it's design allowed a more powerful GPU at equivalent silicon budget. (Sony did luck out with movement on GDDR memory prices) So there is no way MS can achieve that kind of price advantage, which is why I wrote that price PARITY is plausible... (if Kinect2 is ditched) |
Yep just found a new source saying Kinect costs roughly 75$ to produce. If Xbox One does not take a price advantage at some point then it is pretty much hopeless for them. I guess Sony will have the price advantage all the way as the price of GDDR5 ram goes down and the fact that Sony is better at manipulating hardware than MS
MS must have done a terrible job designing this thing. Ive been thinking this time Kinect2 costs more than that.
