Barkley on 03 August 2019
RX 5700 on Amazon - $350
Ryzen 5 3600 on Amazon - $199
The cheapest ZEN 2 CPU and Navi GPU available for PC's, (that's also a 6 core CPU, while the PS5/Scarlett will have 8 core CPU's) and the total comes to $549. Of course they don't cost that much to make, and the PS5/Scarlett APU's will be cheaper to make then these individual parts too and the console don't need to have a large, or even any, profit margin. But add in the cost of HDD, SSD, Optical Drive, Controller, Wifi/Bluetooth, Case, PSU...
There's no way these machines could be less than $499 without absolutely haemorrhaging money or being a lot less powerful than anticipated.
