Gamesindustry Writes: October launch for PS4, next Xbox in November, suggests Baird Equity Research
Having spent CES "with a number of companies involved in video game development and distribution", Baird Equity Research has suggested that new console hardware will retail for $350-$400 in the US.
While not a huge difference from Xbox 360's top end launch price of $399 for the 20GB unit in 2005, it's a significantly lower price than the two PlayStation 3 models that launched at $499 and $599 a year later.
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This has to be the first rumor I have seen about price for next gen consoles.
350-400.00 about right.
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The PSVita is far more remarkable than the PSP and the Vita launched $50-$100 dollars more than the original PSP and look how much umph t has.
remember that these are consoles, Even with off the shelf parts as PCs they already spank the PS3 and Xbox 360 In performance and they have to contend with memory hog OSs like windows and apps running in the back and viruss slowing down the performance. A console at 400 bucks with off the shelf PC parts will have 98 percent of that ram for games and total optimizations that will already put these new consoles in the runnings with High end PCs because they won't have their ram being eaten up like general purpose PCs.
And the process for these consoles will be far more streamlined. I'm hoping Sony goes a bit further and launches at $450-$500. With 500 being the premium edition with a bigger HDD, while $450 Being the standard.
"remember that these are consoles, Even with off the shelf parts as PCs they already spank the PS3 and Xbox 360 In performance and they have to contend with memory hog OSs like windows and apps running in the back and viruss slowing down the performance. "
Thats not how PCs work. Most of the load when playing games is placed on the GPU. Most PCs come loaded with 8 GB of memory these days. The OS barely takes up a small percent of that.
PCs are equipped with quad core CPUs these days. Which is more than enough to keep the GPU well fed. As long as the GPU is isnt wasting cycles there is no way the OS can hog it down.
If consoles were so efficient they would surely be beating 4-5 year old PCs. Which they dont. A Dual core PC equipped with a 8800GTX will run circles around current consoles and that setup is already 5 years old. If consoles were so efficient theyd surely beat this setup but till date they dont.
I don't know if Sony learned a darn thing seeing how the latest gaming hardware launch went with the PS Vita at $250. That's excluding a way overpriced piece of memory card that is kind of crucial to have!
Actual facts beats rumors in my book!
Personally, I would like the price point to be around $400-500 for a low end model. That is some wiggle room to include some awesome technology like Kinect 2. Something to really drive support for the device as well as give new ways to interact with the game similar to the Wii U's tablet controller.
Otherwise we are going to be stuck with controllers forever. Let's move gaming forward!
I might as well not buy it till there in the 300
Gaming is getting to expensive and our bills are also getting expensive
http://www.gamespot.com/new...
$400 sounds sensible, although I assume it'll be a 1:1 conversion from USD to GBP / Euro.
The WiiU Premium with one game is currently £335 on the high street which is about $540
You have 2 scenarios-
A- You DO see a MASSIVE graphical leap from Sony or MS but the console retails at $499 and costs like $599- $699 to manufacture. This scenario is almost 100% likely not to happen given Sony's financial state and Microsofts desire to make more money from the next gen.
B- The console retails for $399 and although the specs are more impressive than the wiiu , it's hard to notice Major graphical difference to the common untrained eye , And those consoles don't come with Something Like the Gamepad / Head tracker / Kinnect 2 as standard.
Nintendo has hit a sweet spot with wiiu. They're breaking even on it or selling at a tiny loss , It's quite powerfull with modern GPGPU based architecture whih is energy efficient and it has the gamepad which could turn out to be a major selling point.
I think Sony and Microsoft has their work cut out trying to make a Powerfull , affordable console next gen...
i had to add the prices you implied and had to do a little double checking on some of the prices and together they would cost at most 460 to apply all the pieces together, if that is the final cost of manufacturing than we can expect the system to cost around 350-399.
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400 $ means 30$ more then the ps3 price. you cant even upgrade the ram with 30$ -.-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Son...
600$ or it's useless upgrading. because what the hell would they change with 400$ price ?! unless they put a 12gb hardesk drive with a 500$ price which people avoid getting..
super slim ps3 12gb is 280$ . that console doesnt count because most people dont like to take it. as you see from the link even the normal slim is more expensive then the super slim
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/r...
so it's not like im faking prices . these are the deals we always get . so i dont know where you get the prices you mentioned >.< . you people expect same size of hardesk in ps4 too for that kind of price ?..
Note : i only saw discount for 12gb ps3 in christmas .
Of course if its 400$ in US it will not be 400$ in UK.. Its called cost of life and its different in each country.
Its 8 core, but it aint Intel. Even if they made it 8 Intel Atom cores and got a discount for buying bulk, thats pricey without even factoring in the GPU, Ram and MBoard.
Rather Msft throw in a nice Enthusiast 8 Series AMD GPU and loads of ram than waste time on a pricey Intel setup.
Apart from the Alpha Durango kit, every rumor says AMD is making parts all round next gen.
Do these guys get paid for this?
Pathetic.
you people expect what from 400$ ?. tell me please ..
As but once 2006 rolled around PC cards began outpacing them.
hmm but maybe a bit more for a 1TB ps4
All in all even if the Ps4 is 400.00 or 450 (i think thats sweet spot for gamers who want good tech,but dont want exorbitant pricing) it will have strong tech because Sony almost always sells at a loss to make this tech possible and recoups via game sales and ps plus will be a factor too.
And have the mb offer full ssd and usb 3.0 support via built on chip, bare minimum 4 gigs of memory.
Dump all pretence of a casual vs hardcore sku, because casuals wouldn't even touch at anything above $250-300. Unless it's a tablet or phone.
The people picking it up the 1st yr will be hardcore fans of said system, 1-2 yrs later you will get the semi hardcore crowd(waiting for income tax return or saving up for it). 3-5 yr you get the multiconsole gamers completing their system collection or casuals snapping it up as a impulse buy. That is how is see it anyway.
I like how nintendo fans, believe the wiiu is the standard for the next gen in regards to power that the ps4 and 720 will have to follow in it's footsteps.
It won't have a gtx 670 ect, but it won't a slighty tweaked ancient rsx or xenos either, i wouldn't mind between a gtx 650 and a gtx 660.