| RolStoppable said: Sony hasn't cut the prices of their PS4 SKUs to allow them to have higher resale value than they would have had otherwise. That's because the PS5 will be expensive. Also, keep in mind that the PS5's SSD is amazing, not some run of the mill crap that could go into a $400 console. |
I wouldn't be surprised if price drops are announced for all PS4 SKUs on Wednesday. Or at the very least sometime just before the launch of the PS5. There is no reason for them to cut the price now.
As for the SSD, I could give ou a massive breakdown on exactly how I think its made, but I'll say this, it's not inexpensive as you may think it is. Sony was very very very smart about how they designed it. Actually, they were very smart about how they designed their entire system.
The SSD in the PS5 exists and performs in a way that can only be accomplished in a console. In a device where every single component is built to complement each other. To put it simply, sony isn't using DRAM in their SSD (just like MS), but unlike MS that instead uses a chunk of its system RAMfor their SSD cache, sony instead built SRAMright into the APU for theirs. Its significantly faster than DDR3/GDDR6 RAM, but obviously smaller, this means they would only need a very small amount of their GDDR6 system RAM o to augment it while at the same time getting overall better performance.
Basically, sony's SSD is actually made up of their APU, SSD, and system RAM. For MS it's their SSD and system RAM. That's not something PCs can do. Going about it this way actually makes their SSD cheaper than it would have otherwise had to be.
