| rolltide101x said: 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 |
Right, as I edited into that post after you saw it, the total subsidy for both consoles (including Kinect2) is practically equivalent:
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PS4 is more powerful because it's architecture design allowed a more powerful GPU at equivalent silicon budget. (Sony did luck out with movement on GDDR memory prices) |
Sony also now owns a chip factory they bought for cheap (the one producing for Wii U, in fact),
plus they probably are the largest GDDR purchaser (8GB/console), so should be getting the best volume discounts on GDDR.
