One of things to remember with the high core counts is that your software has to be able to take advantage of all those cores.
For joe user, most of those cores are going to be sitting idle, or pretty close to it, depending on the software that they are running. (example: the win7 machine I’m typing this one has chrome, Outlook 2013, Lync/Skype for business, and the vCenter client all open and sitting there; the bucket is sitting at or under 10% total usage across it’s cores. (i5-4570T)
