Intrinsic said:
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..... :) |
I just wanted to add in the SSD Hard drive, not really sure how long consoles will remain with the standard drives.. you would think by now they would consider the move to SSD, its so much better. Id much rather an SSD over more storage space in my opinion. My PC boots up quicker than my consoles and that's saying something. I agree the updated GPU will be a definite if they go with the premium model system, that's why I added more Ram on the Premium.
As for the price hike for PC parts, I was more referring to AMD since I think this is going to affect them a little. At the beginning of this gen we didn't have these price hikes and now we do. AMD will surely sell at a higher price you would think. Console makers will still get good deals however would they get deals as good as they did this gen? I would put my money on no as it stands right now. That's an area I am not good with so ill just wait and see, maybe these console makers have already struck a deal, if not than we might be paying more.
