| DonFerrari said: Yep I understand it. But would be quite asinine to have the chip cost the same as Xbox to deliver 20% less don't you agree? And my point was more on, since clockrate increase isn't something so simple to do (even when Xbox One was reacting to being weaker than PS4, which was after both had revealed their specs the increase was quite small and only on CPU and also Xbox had a much bigger box so the cooling was likely easier to tweak for the increase in CPU clock) the whole use of smartshift, two controlers for TDP and all else wasn't something reactionary to MS. It was Sony thinking it was the best solution for them on the budget they had. |
Exactly...on both points. First off anyone that is saying that sony just upped clocksto 2.23Ghz as a reaction to MS announcing 2TF is trolling. Anyone that actually believes that... well I wouldn't even know where to begin.
As for the price, I just believe the target was always to be at $399. The price of hardware is the first thing that is pegged down in the design process. you basically pick a price and then go out to build the best thing you can fit in that pricepoint. Sony would have known that their best bet at hitting that price was making the smallest chip they could make. They would also have known that if they went that route then they would have to be able to clock that chip as high as they could. And just like that, narrow and fast becomes one of the key design pillars of the hardware.
Surely, early on in their design process if they found that going narrow and fast would put them in a position where thy would have to sell at $499, they would have just scrapped that design and gone for something easier and more conventional and as the XSX has shown, even more powerful Unless they somehow spent small fortune on their SSD solution which would mean they would believe it would make more of a difference than just building something more powerful.
I believe sony just set out to make the most powerful box they could make for an MSRP target of $399.
