| desosav said: Everyone cares about money mate. The thing is that MS can reduce X1 price because of cheaper DDR3 modules and continue being profitable. Sony on the other hand with gddr5 modules need to wait before reducing prices. What we need to know is what profit each company makes by selling a console. You know SOny might earn 5$ per console sold and ms 15$ (random numbers)..Additionally you should take under consideration the economic problems sony has the last couple of years which looses 5bn$ per year. On the other hand economic results for ms are green all the way recording, record profits every year. |
Sorry, but this doesn't make sense if you don't look at the full picture. DDR3 modules are cheaper than GDDR5 ones, but this choice made MS put EDRAM on the CPU die, making a much bigger APU with higher loss ratios during litography and way more expensive to manufacture. PS4 is cheaper to manufacture. PS4 will also cut costs faster, because the price of GDDR5 memory will go down faster than the cost of manufacturing a big APU. Add to that the fact that DDR3 modules will actually get more expensive when DDR4 becomes the mainstream norm and we have a recipe for a disaster in cost reduction.
Sony profited more with the US$ 400 PS4 than MS with the US$ 500 X1. Kinect costs 75 bucks and the price went down 100, so MS probably sells it at a slight loss.
