| fatslob-:O said: I highly doubt that the APU costs less than $20 to make. If anything it should be around $130. Sure a 350mm^2 die is nothing of a behemoth compared to a 500mm^2 die but it should still be the most expensive component on board. I also Highly doubt AMD is getting much of any profit judging from their balance sheet ... Just because their is a contract between AMD and Sony like that doesn't mean that manufacturing costs will improve. Memory costs also won't significantly go down due to the fact that they also depend a lot on the silicon to make that happen. I don't expect a price drop to $299 until 2016 ... I don't think Microsoft is going to act insane like how Sony did with their PS3 pricing. Microsoft are smarter than that. |
Like when they bundled the Kinect or that time when they made that god-awfull DRM announcment to the public?
OT: there are way more things that can affect console prices, and the processor is just one of them. Hell, I would argue that currency devaluation has a higher saying in the price then processor manufacturing costs.
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