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Azzanation said:

Well if they want to keep it at PS4 prices than i see it something like this.

Entry Level Price $399-$499
12TF AMD GPU
16Gigs of GDDR5
8 Core AMD CPU
2TB Harddrive

Premium Price $799-$999
16TF AMD GPU
20Gigs GDDR5
8 Core AMD CPU
2TB SSD Harddrive

With the price hike in PC hardware atm its hard to see next gen consoles being sold at a good price.

Lol no..... consoles wouldn't channel their investment more towards an SSD when making a premium console. The bulk of whatever is spent would be on a better GPU and a very slightly better CPU and more Ram.

When it comes to hardware pricing, the console market is very very very different from the PC market. And not everything that causes price fluctuations in one affects the other. I mean take the chips for instance, console based chips are generally "cheaper" because console manufacturers deactivate cores and stuff to improved yeilds. Long story short, far fewer chips are written off as defective since redundancies were already put in place by using fewer cores than what the actual chip is built with.

Also, console manufacturers benefit from ridiculous deals. Thats usually because they aren't dealing in a year or two but negotiating for 5+ years. That makes a world of difference when on the negotiation table.

Lastly, you can't use console hardware for cryptocurrency mining..... :)