Sony has a lot of complex parts that can be redone, and reduce costs across the board.
I've heard the mainboard mentioned before; I would have to agree. Its unnecessarily complex, and through revisions, it should get cheaper to produce.
CPUs and GPUs will always cost money to manufacture. The questions I have, and if anyone can answer them that would be great, are:
1) Does Sony own the right to modify and produce their own CPUs and GPUs?
2) Who manufactures the GPUs? TMSC? IBM (unlikely)? UMC? Nvidia doesn't own their own fabbing equipment, so who is producing their parts?
3) What are the 65nm yields looking like? From the trouble that AMD is running into, it seems like there are some yield problems for getting speeds up to 90nm speeds.
65nm should drop power consumption quite a bit, which should cut down on the needs for the PSU and should cut down on the needed mainboard power circuitry. Yields should be better, and should cut down on prices per chip.
Prices on Blu-Ray drives should plummet over time, and eventually near the price of a standard DVD drive.
Hard drives can only drop so much, and most likely will plateau at some point, and either cost more after or the same for the lifetime.
Wireless, and the card readers will probably remain a constant cost, and will probably always be a consistent cost.
There is quite a bit of room for prices to drop, but a lot of it depends on time.
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