Why I don't see the PS4 and the X1 going below $300 price tag for a long time

[phaedruss]

fatslob-:O said:

phaedruss said:
I personally think this is way off. Sony and Microsoft went with these APUs because they are cheap and will decrease in price in the near future. The cost will continue to do down on the PS4 especially.

Convince me on why you think this is way off because so far it looks to be that way ... 

Multiple reasons. Cheap laptop APUs+console bulk quantities+time. It's really as simple as that. These don't change and they'll keep manufacturing more and more of them. More powerful APUs will be more expensive obviously, but the ones in the xbox one and ps4, especially the PS4 since it doesn't have the esRAM, will drop in price pretty quickly. Not to mention the cost of GDDR5 will go down in regards to the PS4 at least. Whether or not DDR3 will continue to go down is another story as I've seen a convincing argument that as DDR4 is adopted DDR3 will get more expensive.

 

EDIT: Also, your entire premise is based on a smaller node process, right? Well you don't need a smaller node process for the current one to get cheaper, in fact it'll probably continue to get cheaper and cheaper.