PS4, Xbox One not as expensive as you think

[James]

PS4, Xbox One not as expensive as you think

Historically speaking, are the PS4 and Xbox One consoles expensive?

 

[Tydmors]

I wonder where they got those numbers.

 

[Inertia-ZA]

3DO seems to be the highest, not the Neo Geo?

 

[Ike_009]

Even without inflation some of those prices are worse than the PS4 o_0

 

[Grievous]

Even without inflation some of those prices are worse than the PS4 o_0

yeah, pretty surprising. Guess they didn't do all that well.

 

[CrazYmonkeY]

I'm pretty sure this has something to do with moore's law and the innovations which allow for cheaper chips to be made

 

[Grievous]

I'm pretty sure this has something to do with moore's law and the innovations which allow for cheaper chips to be made

Moores law is just chips getting smaller nothing about price. The price you would expect should be pretty standard over there years when applying inflation. But for the same price you should have much more powerful machine.

 

[MOnk]

Moores law is just chips getting smaller nothing about price. The price you would expect should be pretty standard over there years when applying inflation. But for the same price you should have much more powerful machine.

Not really, it depends on where on the tech curve they come out. So for example the PS3 was the first consumer device afaik to have Blu-ray so the price was more expensive.

 

[chan0o]

Never heard of 3DO until now :wtf:

Also, it's not the price of the console that worries me, it's the price of the games
Wonder if steam has any plans for distributing console games in the future. Seeing it's made big picture mode and all "whistling:

 

[Tydmors]

Never heard of 3DO until now :wtf:

Also, it's not the price of the console that worries me, it's the price of the games
Wonder if steam has any plans for distributing console games in the future. Seeing it's made big picture mode and all "whistling:

that would be cool. or they should link all their games like portal 2 does.

 

[FriedPet]

Wonder if steam has any plans for distributing console games in the future. Seeing it's made big picture mode and all "whistling:

No, I think the big picture is for the steambox coming.

 

[Piesank]

Very interesting - probably why the arcades in America were so popular - the home system were too expensive

 

[Grievous]

Not really, it depends on where on the tech curve they come out. So for example the PS3 was the first consumer device afaik to have Blu-ray so the price was more expensive.

Not sure Moores law has much to do with the blu-ray prices either. The Blu-ray has become cheaper because its become pretty much standard and manufacturing costs have gone down. Moores law doesn't apply to every single technology that becomes cheaper over time. His rule is relates to Semiconductors becoming smaller, so in general its more about CPUs becoming faster than general products becoming cheaper over time.