drkohler on 19 August 2007
| Sqrl said: That definitely helps, but it still seems a bit high to me Maybe I just have completely unrealistic expectations but I would expect them to pay 10-15 for normal drives and 20-25 for laptop drives. |
....You are completely realistic for the hd's. My calculations show for the PS3 production costs (total cost):
$880 intial production run (roughly 4-5 Mio units, many sold by now)
$620 (roughly 4-5 Mio units now in production/on sale)
$420 (units in production starting sometimes in 2008)
The final numbers given in the article are roughly correct - the breakdown is often completely wrong (I do have some insight into that matter which would be too complex to explain).
