| nanzano said: The only thing I hate about this is that a 299 Price for the PS4Pro is now impossible. The scorpio had one year before it release, how was 399 not possible M$??? |
I wouldn't say impossible. Sony was smart to keep the manufacturing price cheap on the Pro. It is just a mid-gen refresh, anyway. They went with the same CPU, only overclocked and maybe with a few small improvements. The GPU is the same, again maybe with a few small improvements, only they doubled up on it. Same RAM, just with a higher bandwith. All of this will allow them to cut the price when needed to. Hell, if they wanted to they probably could cut the price to $299 this Sept, and break even. Of course, that would only be done if they just want to seal the Scorpio's fate. Personally, I think they will see no need to, and just drop to $349 and still make profit on it. A $150 price difference is significant enough.
And I think $399 was possible for the Scorpio, but MS doesn't care about its success. At $399, they would probably be breaking even, or taking a very small loss. But, this is what I believe they are thinking. If it succeeds, then good, maybe we'll make a XB2 in 2019-2020. If it fails, which is the much more likely outcome, they we'll still be making profit on each one sold, while we shift even more to Windows gaming.
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