Aura7541 on 21 January 2015
| Protendo said:
I honestly think that will be the first price drop. The costs of the system has dropped significantly since launch. With a die shrink, $299 should still be profitable. I expect the price to happen to counter Microsofts holiday fire sale. Anyone else think that the gap closing was due to the hype sorrounding the "Microsoft Event" that just ended, and because it wasn't worth being hyped is back to normal. The timing is about right. |
Yep, I was quite surprised that the 8 gigabit GDDR5 chips are already in mass production. Cutting the amount of chips on the motherboard in half will really cut manufacturing costs.
Microsoft's event was mainly about Windows 10.
