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Arkaign on 14 April 2014
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Dark_Feanor said:



Over time, the Xbox's DDR3 is going to continue to get more and more expensive as the PC market shifts over to DDR4 and it's derivatives, the Playstation 4's memory however should get cheaper due to scales of economies, with a fast selling console and low-end PC cards starting to use GDDR5 more and more, production will be scaled up so all those devices will benefit.


Sorry, but you are utterlly wrong with that statement.

Don´t know from where you got that information but it dosen´t make any sense/logic.

Memory is a comodity and takes time to get from one tecnology to the other. Foundrys won´t stop producing DDR3 and shift entirely to DDR4 (or DDR6 to be more precise), and in fact, if there were less demand for DDR3 the price will continue to drop even if by 10 years from now the XOne is the only device to use it.

The reciprocal is the same to GDDR5, if a lot of video cards starts to use GDDR5 the price will go up for years until the foundrys are fully capable.


This is hilariously incorrect.

 

dram manufacturers have to retool for the volume standards. Whatever has mass volume decreases in price due to immense competition and economies of scale. When a standard falls away, prices increase quite a bit. Look at ddr2 now for example. Ddr3 will dramatically increase in price in 2015 and beyond. To expect otherwise is insanity, and it quite literally has never happened before.