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Will CPUs drop in price in response to the new consoles?

Quartz

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The new XBox with an 8 core 16 thread CPU is going to cost $599. Currently the Ryzen 3700X - the same CPU, near enough - costs £330. Hugely overpriced by comparison. So will we see massive price cuts?
 
Unlikely, they are completely different markets. The 3700X might see a price drop when the 4000 series arrive though.
 
Prices will rises, and continue to do so. People just buy regardless of the price set, moan about it a lot, get used to it and then cycle repeats itself.
 
I very much doubt it. Suspect the Ryzen 4000 series will also be more expensive than the Ryxen 3000 series.
 
Consoles have historically been sold at a loss. Assuming the new ones follow that pattern, there's no reason to expect Intel/AMD to try to compete with that. Desktop CPUs don't compete directly with consoles anyway (at least not usually - there have been exceptions, like supercomputers made of PS2s).
 
Quartz said:
But not much of a loss. Certainly not a $600 loss. And, if memory serves, the Nintendo Wii was sold at a profit.



True, but the Ryzen 3700 is the closest thing that OCUK sell. Perhaps the closest match CPU-wise would be the Ryzen 9 4800 or 4900.
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Someone is fully on board the console hype train.

Choo Choo!
 
AMD cant make CPUs quick enough. They're a world-wide sensation at the moment. Why would they drop prices?

There was a major problem before Ryzen. The market was stagnated. Sales were SLOW because new products weren't being made. People were still using things they bought in 2010 and 2011. That's when we needed prices to drop.

CPUs are already an absolute bargain now surely???
 
Rewinds memory back to early 2017, ah all that 4 core goodness for over £330...
Prices have already dropped and the consoles exist due to that competition, prices aren't going to drop over night because of consoles, you'd have to be completely unaware of the computer sales landscape to think selling 100 million consoles over 7 years would make them want to lose profit on literally billions of CPU's over the same period. :)

TL;DR, no don't be daft.
 
Confuzz said:
I hope your right
I'm struggling to hide to my wife how expensive my pc hobby has become over the last few years.;)
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I really can see a lot of people go console instead of buying a new GPU this time round if the new cards are crazy expensive.

It's basic economics.

My prediction is the new Nvidia cards will be expensive at first when they release. But once the consoles arrive and in too 2021 we could see some price rebalancing if sales start going in the console direction.
 
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Sony and Microsoft will get a volume discount as they'll have a long term contract with AMD and like others have said it's different hardware, the console APU's are made to order and more focused around power efficiency rather than overly aggressive clockspeeds.
 
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