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Bofferbrauer on 09 April 2017
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Hiku said:
jason1637 said:

It comes out Q4 this year so the prices should go down and MS probably got some parts for a lower rpice so it could possible be $50-500.

The link is listing DDR3 memory, not DDR5. It's not dedicated gaming memory like the RAM inside consoles. Also missing a 4K Blu Ray drive, etc.

You should probably listen to Digital Foundry. They do this for a living. And they expect Scorpio to cost at least $500.

"My sense is that the price differential will be fairly wide and that there'll be less crossover in the audience than there is with PS4 and Pro.
All of these add cumulatively to the bill of materials and if I had to guess - and I'll stress that this isn't based on anything I might have heard on my visit - Project Scorpio is going to cost in the region of $499."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-scorpio-is-console-hardware-pushed-to-a-new-level

Or listen to Phil when he keeps saying it will be a premium price, and compared it to their Elite Controller, which costs more than twice as much as a standard controller.

there is no DDR5 memory out yet. The Standard for it is only about to be set even.

What you mean is GDDR5. That G stands for Graphics and is derived of DDR3 memory. It comes with a much larger Bandwith, which graphic card needs, but at the costs of much longer latencies (making it unsuitable for CPU RAM) and much more power consumtion.

The build is using DDR3 because it's the only kind of memory the Bulldozer Chip can handle anyway. More modern processors, like Ryzen, would use DDR4 memory.

As for the Blu-Ray 4K drive, there ain't one on the market yet right now as far as I know. Which is why a Blu-Ray writer is installed instead, and the extra costs of the writing heads make up a bit for the 4K read capacity.

499$ is also what I expect at launch, but will drop soon because it will not sell. Too few good exclusives and having such a big price compared to the PS4 pro will force the Scorpio to drop in price fast.