Soundwave said:
Not really 15-30% better than a PS4 is nothing mind blowing for 2016. It will probably be $299-$350. |
either way its not that simple.
15-30% better can mean so much. Easiest implementation of that is just a CPU up clock to say 2GHz. But if they are looking at a more powerful GPU then they will also need RAM just as much and as fast as a PS4 or not all those upgrades will mean nothing. It's not even about the price, it's the whole package.
Right now it's pretty certain that each PS4 probably cost Sony less than $300 to make. if Nintendo is coming in at $349-$399.... absolutely nothing will stop Sony from just dropping the price of the PS4 to $199. They did that with the PS2, and when they did it they hadn't even attained the kinda Install base they have now with the PS4 and that was at a time when there weren't multiple revenue streams besides direct game sales. Bow they have games, PS+, PSvue and an install base of probably over 40M.
All those factors affords Sony the luxury of slashing the PS4 to as low as $199 of need be. How exactly is Nintendo going to compete with that of their box is almost twice as expensive for 30% more power? And how much better is 30% more power going to even be than the PS4 when the PS4s 50% more power over the XB1 isn't even that distinguishable unless you're a pixel counter.
Anyways, guess we'll see how it all plays out. But I can bet my last dollar that a $199 PS4 is right around the corner. Simply by taking into consideration all the advances made in manufacturing tech.
I know Nintendo has to bring their A game now, cause they simply can't afford back to back failures, but doing so required that Nintendo adopts a syratgey that they have NEVER used. So we will see.
