Why the Scorpio will sell for no more than $399 (if its 6tflops).

[barneystinson69]

Hiku said:

barneystinson69 said:

You also need to keep in mind Sony didn't have a clue about the PS4 Pro price. They don't have insiders in Microsoft, so their guess is educated at best. My reasoning is that if the PS4 pro can be $399, the Scorpio can as well. As far as we know, the only upgrade outside the GPU is the ram, and maybe an overclock to the CPU. But its mostly the same system.

By Sony, you mean Digital Foundry? They wrote a new article on the subject last month and seemingly updated it with the PS4 Pro's price, while still maintaining their estimate of the Scorpio being at least $100 more than the Pro: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-08-18-project-scorpio-release-date-price-games-xbox
(Read the last paragraph)

Which means they expected Pro to cost at least $400. Probably more, as most were surprised by the Pro's low cost. (I guess they didn't expect Sony to omitt a 4K BD drive) Which bodes worse for the Scorpio's price difference in relation to the Pro, wouldn't you say?

And what kind of reasoning is "if PS4 Pro can be $400, so can the Scorpio"?

My point being is why would Microsoft release a console for $500 when its competitor will be 100-150$ cheaper. The CPU is still Jaguar, and the only upgrades are going to be to the RAM and GPU. I don't see where the extra $100 is coming from.