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Discontinue 4B? Why? Should Sony discontinue the PS5 when they failed to supply enough to meet demand?
by thevagrant 3y ago
Discontinue 4B? Why?
Should Sony discontinue the PS5 when they failed to supply enough to meet demand?
- bemusedthrow75 3y agoNot sure what you mean about the PS5 unless you've misunderstood what I mean. The CM4 can do _most_ of the work that the Pi 4 and Pi 400 can do. A hypothetical future CM5 might feasibly be designed to be the CPU board of a still-tiny Pi 5B, Pi 500 and maybe even a smaller form factor. The CM units are shipped in a bunch of different varieties, which would allow e.g. schools and consumers to decide which variation of a Pi 5 or Pi 500 they want. It could eliminate all the "5B" SKUs and allow them to focus on manufacture of fewer SKUs at larger scales. And this way, the market gets to solve the endless "I wish it had USB-C", "I wish it had two gigabit ethernet ports", "I wish it had two CSI ports", "Nobody serious will use it without some onboard flash" criticisms (that proponents of other SBCs have), with variations of the CM and the host hardware. There are already some good reasons to buy a CM4 and a host board instead of a Pi 4B. I wonder if this is a decision that could have been taken two years ago; there were already host boards on the market, and they could have produced one themselves by now. They were churning out half a million CM4s a month but there was no way to use that to serve the consumer market.
- thevagrant 3y agoI see your point. Perhaps they will move in that direction given time.