Amazon US March monthly bestsellers and general amazon based discussion

[Kerotan]

binary solo said:

dasnook said:
No way will X1 catch ps4 in the US...ps4 won't be 399 forever and x1 will be harder to drop in price over this gen due to esram and using older ddr43 ram which won;t drop in price anymore. Especially with ps4 outselling it while being more expensive.

But even high end gaming rigs still use DDR3 for main RAM. GDDR5 is only used for the graphcs card. It's only the crazy expensive uber spec'd gaming rigs that use DDR4 in the main RAM. So it's not like DDR3 is rapidly falling from use, and even if mid-high end gaming rigs move to DDR4 for main RAM in the next couple of years there's still going to be a lot of lower end computers sold with DDR3. 

Besides how much does the marginal moviements in price fort DDR3 or GDDR5 really affect the over all cost of these consoles. There are probably far more significant cost reductions for both sides that will allow for price cuts.

No disagreeing with you but what are the things in a console that will allow a reduction in price the most?