| Fei-Hung said: I was thinking this will be priced at $399-450 or $450-499, but looking at what's been said about the cost of the card alone not including everything else needed that goes into a console, i can see this being between $699-750. The cost of the chip alone might be $300. Add a TB hard drive, Bluetooth, wireless, Ram, audio chip, fan, casing, power unit, controller, logistics and retailer profit margin, this won't be cheap. |
But this is not the case. Your initial instinct was right. It will be $450-499 and be targeted at pretty much the same market as the Xbox One is.
It's simple I think. If today an AMD RX 480 GPU at 5.5TFLOPS, costs only $200 for the regular consumer, for sure Microsoft will be able to purchase a 6TFLOP (or even 8TFLOP) GPU from AMD for less money in one year from now. And we all know the GPU is the most expensive part of a console, so if the GPU costs $150 for Microsoft, the total cost of the Scorprion can be kept under $500.
The Xbox One was $400 when they removed the Kinect. The extra $100 for Scorpion can easily cover the more expensive GPU and possibly CPU, especially when we also take into account that hardware tech has had four years to improve during the time between the launch of Xbox One (November 2013) to the Scorpion (October or November 2017).
