Is Wii winning the console race? (Yahoo story)

[Kwaad]

Death2009 said: Kwaad said: I just wanna point out a Wii could be sold for 100$ with minimal losses... ;) A PS3 will cost less than 150$ to make before the PS4 comes out. I promise. The PS4 will have 4-8x more power than a PS3. ;) I doubt all 3. I think the PS4 will be half the PS3's power..if that.

Ummm... A PS2 6 years ago. (when they first came out) cost around 350$ to make. Sold them for 300$. Today Sony makes a PS2 for around 50$. And sells them for 125$. In 6 years, if sony made a PS4 have half the power of a PS3... it could cost them around 50$ to make. Death - You obviously dont know about how chip prices half every 18months. 600/300/150/75$ 1.5/3/4.5/6 In 6 years the PS3 will cost Sony roughly 75-100$ EDIT: I also wanna say the Wii is about 20-30% the power of a PS3. You say you doubt the Wii could be sold for 100$ with minimal losses? CPU - 15$ GPU - 15$ DVD - 9$ (it's a noisy cheapo) buttons/fans/case - 25$ nunchuck/wiimote - 20$ 15+15+9+25+20 = 84$ EDIT2: My CPU/GPU is probibally 30 combined total, low. I'd say total it costs ~115$ http://www.younewb.com/index.php/2006/12/14/the-wii-just-the-console-only-costs-158-to-make/