It's time to accept it, PS4 has won the US this gen

[Aura7541]

DeadBigfoot21 said:

Aura7541 said:

If that was the case, then we wouldn't have seen the standalone Xbox One and the PS4 priced identically. And MS can't just cut the price now because it just unbundled the Kinect and a lot of consumers will be pissed. By the time MS will be able to cut the price in a reasonable fashion, Sony can easily do the same. Also, the X1's motherboard is trickier to make than the PS4's despite using cheaper parts because of the esRAM being integrated into the APU. The PS4's APU is just straightout CPU and GPU in one die.

Yeah it was not a price cut just kinect unbundled. A price cut hasent happened yet. I beg to differ about your statement. GPU and ram cost more on ps4 compared to the Xbox one that is just common sense since one is weaker than the other. Microsoft can easily sell it @ $350 and still make a cut or @ $300 and maybe loose a profit but I have no idea if that's the case. Anyways Sony can't afford losing money on a console at this time since they are losing money left and right. I highly doubt they will make a price cut if Microsoft does one this year.

However, you don't just add up the costs of each individual parts. It also costs money to put the parts together and that's where the PS4 trumps the X1 on. Because PS4 uses a unified memory format, Sony doesn't have to worry about embedding any RAM with the CPU and GPU on the same die. However, the X1's APU is more complicated and thus, probably costs more to put the CPU, GPU, and esRAM together despite the parts being cheaper. In addition, the X1 uses DDR3 RAM and its costs are already pretty cheap. GDDR5 RAM is more expensive, but has a lot more room for price reductions.