December for japanese xbox 360 vs march for ps3 ps3 is 5 months .
I don't expect a price cut . Will make the brand look weak .
You don't care for standard features , many others do . Yes it will make things easier for devs and speed up loading . Next gen will barely use any procedural textures as it will be way to cpu intesnive .
Adding ram will be expensive. It increaseses pcb cost and of course increases the ram cost
and changes the cooling abilitys of the case
U add xdr ram and its more expensive than the same amount of gdr ram. It will also have latancys when being acessed by the gpu. But anyway u have ram cost + pcb cost . Not exactly cheap and once again will add much more heat .
IN the future costs may scale down yes. But that is the future and sony will still have to suffer through looses to get to that point .
Hardrives will fall slower . However you can sell bigger hardrives after marktet for upgrades and make moeny and then for marketing and sales boosts you can replace the hardrive who's costs have stalled and have remained static with a hardrive that is still falling in price .
I.e if a 20 gig hardrive in 2 years hits rock bottom pricing at 10$ and wont ever move the 40 gig wont be to far behind it (if not the same price) and thus u can market the system with an upgraded hardrive and not need to drop your price and make more money that way .
U simply don't just drop in more ram. Its not a pc and I hghly doubt sony wants to go higher than 500$ for the system in costs . Esp not when they don't need to
