Scorpio will be $599+ due to the increased RAM and the change of that ram to GDDR5. It will also have a 4K Blu-Ray player which will easily add $100 to the console manufacturing cost. The PS5 will have a number of advantages in the cost department when they decide to release. They will more than likley use GDDR6 ram and will probably stay at 8GB, maybe 16GB tops though I would say staying at 8GB using Ram with double the speed will be fine. On the Ram side I would say it will be a wash on cost over the PS4 with a possible slight increase depending on GDDR cost. If they decide to add a 4K Blu-ray player the cost will have been driven down considerably by then which will also save a considerable amount on cost. Giving the new AM4 platform a couple years on the market will also allow the cost for both CPU and GPU prices to drop giving a very big increase in performance for about the same price as the PS4. Microsoft IMO is taking the PS3 approach and throwing a bunch of expensive parts into the machine for no real reason. I think they are stuck in the console as the main living room device approach. Even though I can use my PS4 to watch PS VUE, I still choose the FireTV due to its remote. Most people I would imagine use their console for gaming and not much else.
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