Arachnotronic
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If you want Quad Cores (Thats what Core i7 6700K is) at $300-350 for the next 10 years yes its not essential to have AMD around
5820K is $389, and Coffee Lake is expected to arrive on the mainstream platform with six Cannon Lake cores in the first half of 2018.
Anyway, most games/consumer applications still don't really benefit from a ton of cores -- they want really fast cores. Harp on Intel all you'd like, but they have been killing it with single-threaded performance for gamers in recent years (4790K, 6700K, and soon 7700K).