Next Gen so far.

[eFKac]

Lawlight said:

eFKac said:
Hmm, PS4 is still without it's biggest wild card for me Project Morpheus, so there is that. Games I'm not expecting to be mindblowing until 2015-16, but the power is a bit of an dissapointment.
I think if Sony would be financially the Sony of early 21st century, they would use the razorblade model and we would get a more powerful PS4 with Sony eating the cost, but now well...the cut down version of 7870 is not enough if we're not getting every game in 1080p which I think should be a standard in 2014. And that's the most powerful console this gen I'm talking about, which is telling...

Except people don't want a razorblade model - they want an affordable gaming system.

Maybe I always thought razorblade model means something different than it actually means, but how I always understood it, Sony have been making consoles that were expensive to make and selling them for less than they were worth, to cover up the losses by software sales, which were potentially higher thanks to the consoles faster adoption rate, because they were the better deal than consoles that weren't made with razorblade model in mind. They've done it with every home console before the PS4, the most famous was PS3 which was speculated to be cost around 900$ to make, sold for 600$.

It has nothing to do with being affordable or not, in my scenario, Sony releases PS4 for 399$ but inside we get a cut down 7970 instead of 7870, just Sony isn't breaking even like now, but rather loosing 50$ per console.