Baikal N is at present much profitabler than X10, why is the price only a half??? Because they want sell something to get FIAT and want mine with GOOD Algos.
2 Rabbits with one piston!
IMHO
You forgot to mention some important facts. First the Baikal N has not been shipped yet and it earns maximum $24 a day. After they are delivered you should be happy if you can earn $12 a day. On the other hand you can still earn $20 a day with X10 after half a year. Moreover the X10 doesn't cost $7200 at all if you order from Baikal.
What should be a reason to go to 12 USD? Current price for altcoin?
Maybe it grows in this delivery time. Difficulty can not be a reason. Or did you heard that Antminer sell similar Asic with this algoritm in staple?
Baikal N is a low hashrate Asic. It will stay profitable for a long time, like x10. I would also buy some, but so long I do not gets 2 new promissed algos from baikal, I do not buy it!
Profit will go to 5-12$ a day mining etn etc. This is after monero fork and the giant n 's mining monero will jump to etn, bytecoin etc. There wont be much to mine after monero fork. Power cost is almost nothing which helps. But then what if etn forks... wont be pretty in a few months time.