| JRPGfan said: Game DVR capture built in.... and 4k Blu-ray drive. |
The APU isn't so beefy, even by today's standard. Until the end of the year, it will barely be mid-range with a Geforce 1180 most likely releasing before that. 4K Blu-Ray drives can fit perfectly in a console that is sold for 229 € around here, so I don't see it as a problem for Scorpio. 12 GB of GDDR5 are not that much more expensive than 8 GB of legacy DDR3. Plus, they save on ESRAM from what I've heard. Which is far more expensive. Game DVR can be done by a co-processor. Some ARM SoC, not that expensive. The more important part for that is the software.
I don't see any problem with 399 $. It's a perfectly reasonable price for a new console with entry-level to mid-range hardware. You can get a PC with 6 Teraflops right now for a little more than 600 bucks. I'm talking about a pre-built system here, you can bring that price down to 500 bucks if you build it yourself. Sure, there's no 4K Blu-Ray Drive there, but you get a SSD, it kinda balances out in the end. I don't see why Scorpio would need to be super-expensive. It's not rocket science in there, it's nothing magic, it's standard hardware and I think many people are heavily over-estimating what it actually can do.
Then again, maybe that's just me, what the hell do I know.
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