| Soundwave said: $550 at a very high mark up, that's the retail cost after manufacturing and retail profit margins are factored in, the GPU itself probably costs in the range of $300-$350 or so to manufacture (w/RAM) today, also MS would surely be getting a sweeter deal than that as they order these parts in the millions. Factor in that MS is not launching for another 1 1/2 years almost too, R9 Fury will be two years old by the time XBox 2 launches. |
All true, but thats also the problem. You arent really looking at the whole picture.
The R9 fury is based on an established, perfected and outgoing 28nm process. Whatever are in these new boxes are going to be on the curremt 16nm finfet process. By the time the XB1.5 is coming, that fabrication process is still going to be problematic. Yeilds will be a lot lower than what you can get with a 28 nm wafer. Lower yeilds means higher costs.
Other things to consider are the CPU, memory, PSU, cooler....etc. If the GPU alome costs $300-$350, what do you think eveeything else will cost? You will need a cpu beefy enough to be paired wotj such a GPU. That costs money. You will need ram fast enough to be paired with such a setup. Again, money. A PSU powerful enough to provide power to all that. Again money. A cooling system that gaurantees they dont have another RROD on their hands.
All that will put such a console well over the $600/$700 mark. And i don't see MS biting $200 in losses on every box sold to get the price down to $400/$500. Especially when the PS4neo could end up costing no more than $400.
I'm not saying the XB1+ won't be significantly more powerful. Im just saying i dont seen anyway that its possible for it to have a GPU thats 6TF. Its just not possible.
