Bboid on 14 November 2008
When the console first released, the 60gb version was roughly $750-850 to produce, depending on what price they were paying for bulk parts.
Now with the cheaper parts, blu-ray diodes being far cheaper they are almost close to breaking even on the $399 pricepoint. (about $475-525 to produce now)
By far the largest cost of the system at launch was the blu-ray diodes and they have plummeted in price since then.
