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Sony Flexible on PlayStation 4 Cost

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Loudninja

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When asked if the company was prepared to compete with other consoles and hit a more favorable price, Yoshida said that Sony's decisions to use custom AMD hardware instead of its own proprietary Cell architecture has allowed it to save on R&D and production costs.

"The architecture choice we have made this time around has allowed us not to invest to create dedicated factories and conducting factories and things like that — so that helps in order for us to provide an affordable price to consumers."
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http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/21/sony-flexible-on-playstation-4-cost
 
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Hoo-doo

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Tretton on the matter of cost:

Will the new console cost $599 to start?

I certainly hope not. I think we’re very proud of what we delivered with the PlayStation 3 in terms of technology, and that we were able to enhance the features while still reducing the price to $249. But I think our goal with this is to debut at a more consumer-friendly price. But we haven’t made any final decisions about what the price will be at launch.
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http://allthingsd.com/20130221/seve...ck-tretton-following-the-playstation-4-event/
 
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MikeE21286

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Very glad about the end


"....affordable price to consumers"

Obviously their definition of "affordable" is all that matters.
 
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Aquamarine

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Still going to be expensive as FUCK to produce. GDDR5 RAM is NOT CHEAP by any definition of the word.

Luckily, subsidized consoles maneuver around that problem quite deftly.
 
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Takuya

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Imo, they will let Microsoft make the first move as far as pricing goes, and then make their announcement.

$399 Standard SKU
$499 Premium SKU
 
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PhatSaqs

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I'll be surprised if they go above the $429 rumor. The closer they get to $500 the more they risk getting steamrolled by MS again.
 
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Thoraxes

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... affordable to consumers who buy $600 iPads.

Either way, it could be fun to see Sony bleed money faster than a river flows.
 
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mr_nothin

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So basically BoM doesnt matter as much to them because they arent spending billions on R&D and building factories. Awesome
 
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-Pyromaniac-

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The lowest SKU will never go over 500. That's passing the mental barrier by miles.

I'm guessing 449/499 or 399/499 depending on the losses they're willing to take on this. Could be some weird number in between though like 420/490.
 
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Mihael Mello Keehl

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I really how much I am going to spend if this does have sone sort of online pay 50$, plus what a game or 2, 120$, plus another controller 60$. Already looking at some high price goddamn.
 
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Salsa

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sticking with what ive said before: high price point, but optional different retail package that lowers the cost but adds a revamped PS+ monthly subscription and comes with game/online sharing features.
 
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CountAntonius

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What exactly would a cheaper SKU cut back aside from HDD size? I was think the next eyetoy but it wouldn't make sense if they want to make it standard and I don't think it has Kinect level price anyway.

My Guess is
399 for a console with smaller HDD
499 for a console with a large HDD and maybe a year of PS+?
 
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Felix Lighter

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Takuya said:
Imo, they will let Microsoft make the first move as far as pricing goes, and then make their announcement.
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They'll both want to wait it out but at some point one of them will have to pull the price trigger. I expect E3 for both because they'll need to start accepting preorders after a major event, I think.
 
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Ryaaan14

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$399 with paid online sub required. They'll make bank off of software through PSN with people using the background downloading tech to make up for hardware losses.
 
Amory

Amory

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Console manufacturers should do what amazon does with the Kindle and offer a SKU with ad backgrounds and commercials or whatever. Then offer it at a much lower price.
 
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-Pyromaniac-

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Baconsammy said:
If they've planned it well, they'll be able to offset their initial losses with paid services. Hopefully not with 10 dollar increases to the price of games, though.
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indeed. They're also probably banking on having much more people on PS+ from the get go which should help offset things. Game prices going up would be turrrible.
 
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Crisco

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One SKU with optical drive and one without. A $100 difference based on hard drive capacity doesn't make sense in 2013.
 
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alstein

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I don't think Sony will force online play to be free.

I could see something like a subsidized model where you're forced to get PSN+, but I don't think they'll stick online play behind a paywall, as that will cause real anger from folks who stuck with the PS3.
 
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Kame

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If by any means the PS4 is between 300-400, I'm in for one. Anything above 450, I'll be hesitant.

Could also be cheaper (lol but this is $ony were talking about) they can somehow pull the loss in a subscription based PSN for the new platform.
 
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