Amazon US January monthly bestsellers and general amazon based discussions

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Kerotan said:

Aura7541 said:

Kerotan said:

This is the improvement that will make PS4 RAM a lot cheaper among other improvements.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2015/01/15/samsung-gddr5-ps4/1

can't find a link for the reason xbox's ddr3 is going to get more expensive but the reason was due to the expected decline in demand for it as the industry is moving on from it. less demand equals higher costs to make and less money 

DDR4 RAM is around the corner. When new RAM technology becomes the standard, the price of the previous generation RAM goes up (and quite significantly, too). When DDR3 became the standard, the price of DDR2 went up. GDDR5 RAM, in contrast, does not have this problem.

Thanks. Sony made a great call regards ram. 

Well, as long as MS is smart they will have forward order contracts for RAM and a price cap guarantee. If the market price goes down MS will pay less, but of the market price goes up MS won't pay above the cap. being able to rely on,say, 10 million units of sales every year for at least 2 or 3 more years is worth risking reduced revenue if/when the market price for DDR3 RAM goes up.

It's probably true that RAM price won't help with MS getting its manufacturing costs down, but it's unlikely to cause MS any problems by counteracting the decreases in costs of other components.

Interesting to see PS4 up to #5. Is that the highest it's been for a while? I do hope The Order's new trailer has helped there.