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Sure, you can't multiply mHz outright, but the point is, four cores running at 800 mHz is a lot more than one or two, and Apples iPod touch improvements are typically very minor when the model doesn't receive a redesign, which just happened last year, and likely won't happen again.
As far as cost goes, since Cell phones aren't quite like TVs, in the sense that you can't find a cell phone with different display types with similar features, but with different screens, I figured I'd just dig up prices of OLED TVs and find a comparative model using an LCD screen, but even then, I could only found TVs priced in British pounds. Looking around gadget blogs like gizmodo reflect that OLED in TV is costly, and kind of on the way.
This story here reveals supply troubles with OLED screens that HTC has had in making some cell phones. Essentially, the constant idea is that OLED, even now, is difficult and time-consuming to manufacture, and the reflection of that is expensive screens. Smaller OLED screens are more common, but even then, manufacturers have a difficult time maintaining supply. These aren't hard pricing figures, but taken with the common-sense economical laws of supply and demand, we can conclude that a lower volume of OLED screens available will be reflected through the price, especially if Sony needs millions of OLED screens for manufacturing the NGP.
Take that a step further, though, and if the OLED screen is the limiting factor for manufacturing the NGP, then Sony will recognize that they'll have limited supply, potentially supply that is far outpaced by demand. As we saw with the PS3 and the PSPGO, when Sony believers consumer demand will be much higher than their supply (and sometimes even when it's substantially lower), specifically because of the quality of the parts of the device (and Sony's earlier presentation and following interviews definitely imply the believe the device to be in high demand and quality), Sony's pricing models go sky-high.
Essentially what I'm saying is this: The OLED screen will be a limiting factor in the manufacturing of the NGP. Sony sees the NGP as a nice thing people want. Sony will expect to bring a limited quantity of NGPs to market at launch, and will expect the device to sell no matter what, as often is the case on console launches. In this respect, we should expect a very high price due to Sony's belief that the demand curve will be steeper than the supply curve and their correlated believe that the price of the NGP will almost invariably be below that of the demand curve for the expected supply of the device.
It's not the simple answer you're looking for, no, but essentially, unless the corporate culture of Sony has changed in the last four years, and given their prices for gadgets and TVs are higher than most others on the market, it hasn't, we won't see a simple, affordable NGP at first. The thing will be expensive, because Sony almost certainly, Sony believes it will sell on eBay for $1000 at launch. I think that's the sentence that sums up my argument well.
Topic: PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) - previously known as NGP (Read 265793 times)
