Why reports of the decline of the PS3 have been grossly exaggerated.

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Kantor said:

makingmusic476 said:

Kantor said:
You know, if they just took out WLAN, they could easily cut the price by $100 with minimal losses. Then they could go the 360 path and release a separate WLAN adapter.

And a $100 price cut would be massive.

 

Don't let Microsoft's exorbitant adapter prices fool you into thinking WLAN costs $100.

Well 65nm Cell + taking out WLAN should let them cut the price by $100, right? There wouldn't be much loss at all.

 

I doubt it, at least not at first, defect rate in early fabs of ppc wafers normally have very high defect rates compared to x86, so it would take a few months to stream line the reduced size chips on the new wafers, also sony has to pay more now for the reduced size then it did when it first entered, since it has sold more rights on development to ibm, the reduced chip size will mean reduced cost but just not as much. wlan, would proably save you 20-30 bucks, and off of a minority of users make more money in the after add ons so really a good idea for them over all there.

honestly they are stuck on cost in a lot of ways, they need ram prices to drop, especially on the exotic stuff, and combining the cell+gpu will be alot harder then combining a standard ppc+gpu, though both will have very high defect rates for months before production is approved. blueray will always cost more then dvd laser... on the bright side they went with a standard size hdd, which is much cheaper then a laptop size hdd that micrsoft uses, so they got that going for them.

it comes down to they have almost cut everything away that they can to cut prices, expect to see the wlan cut, when a major board redesign happens next year. and reduced size gpus, and cpus will help price in the long run. blue ray will continue to get cheaper to make, but any price cut in the next year will most likely (although temporarily) take the ps3 back into a loss per unit.