Soundwave on 14 June 2016
| etking said: The GPU is worth around $200 alone (in production cost) and you need to add an X1, so $599 is realistic, not less than $499 by the end of next year. |
lol, not a chance in hell MS is paying anything close to that. They are not some rinky dink little kid buying one GPU at a time from Best Buy, they order for multiple years in a volume of millions, they will get a price probably half that, if not less. The GPU itself will be cheaper in 18 months anyway.
The PS4/XB1 equivalent (roughly) GPUs were the 7850-7870 AMD, and they were about $300 when they launched in summer 2012 (pretty much the exact same time line the Polaris 10 is on relative to the Scorpio launch).
So the PS4/XB1 GPUs were actually more expensive for their time. Polaris 10 is a nice piece of kit which is dirt cheap, MS is smart to jump on it.
