fatslob-:O said:
I didn't say that the PS4 will cost over $300 for the next five years. I simply said that I don't see it going under $300 in the next five years. The only time I'll ever see the PS4 going below $300 is when the chip manufacturing industry makes it's move to 13.5nm extreme ultraviolet lithography. How much difference do you think it's honestly going to make just because Sony has more savings for ordering a larger volume of chips ? At it's worst xbox will set out to do 40 million and I only see the PS4 reaching 100 million realisitically. GDDR5 already gets ordered a lot as it is so I don't see it dropping much in price coupled with the fact that there will be no manufacturing advantages when moving to a more advanced process technology. Something tells me you haven't done a lot of reasearch on the future manufacturing costs in state of the art semiconductor foundries. You also happen to be missing an important fact as manufacturing costs will not go much lower in the future so I don't see how it will be possible to go under $300 without incurring massive losses. Did you even take your time of the day to read the very first post in this thread or try to make sense of it ? I'm almost certain that Sony would rather make money than appealing to the consumers completely as they would want to recoup the losses from last gen but I don't know about Microsoft ... That won't happen as both Sony and Microsoft are looking to make a profit and they'd rather a duopoly than a destructive business like the original xbox or the PS3. |
Well, I think I'm just going to bookmark this page and necrobump it in about two years, when we have a $299 PS4. We'll see then if you still believe it will be another 3 years before we see a $249 SKU.