If the PS3 Slim is legit and releases at $299 - What will it do for sales?

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JHawkNH said:

RPG said:
This is a thread about a said to be PS3 slim.........you do understand that PS3 production costs will decrease by a huge amount?

Like a broken record kowenicki, playing the same awful song. :(

 

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All joking aside, you are wrong RPG.  A slim model will not decrease production costs by a huge amount.  It will only decrease the costs by a small amount. (and definently not $100)  All the componets that are expensive are going to be the same price as they are in the full size PS3. (The cell, blu-ray, memory, harddrive)  The only places you save money is on the cost of the case and a smaller mainboard.

Any savings that Sony will make on a slim PS3 need to go towards getting the division back to profitability.  I can't imagine that Sony would actually do something that stupid, but now a days you never know.

how do we know they aren't shrinking all the other components too?