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Pemalite said:
QUAKECore89 said:

It won't ever change because the brand name is still there, but the reason will be a tiny bit different, hexacore that is all, for those people want to play big games like BF1 and other latest open world games(if they optimized 6 cores).

I'm expecting Core i5 8600K will be $280 more or less. 

Well. Hyper-Threading hasn't ever been a game changer (Pun intended) for gaming anyway.
In-fact one annoying part was that in Minecraft, windows would run the game on a Single Core+Hyper Thread, which would introduce a slight stutter. - Throwing it onto two real cores removed that issue completely as you remove any resource contention.

Coffee Lake i5 should bring Hex-Core goodness to the mainstream and should continue the sweet-spot point for Intel, Quad-Cores will still be gaming-capable for many years to come though.

This is indeed because of game developers made people always go buy core i5, they refused to give a shot on hyper-threading and rather focus on physical cores, so, yeah.. Gamers were disappointed and they were like let's just stick with core i3/i5, i7 is a pointless CPU thanks to the lazy developers ever give a shot. In the end, gamers agreed.

Seriously though, core i3/i5/i7(i9 is a parody) sounds too dated for a new coffee lake architecture, we need a coolest name to evolve a new era. >:(