Loud_Hot_White_Box on 13 December 2008
| Lumbo said: Quote from Billy Gun: ############### do you think that the HD drive is the only problem of the Ps3? I'll name some more: - Wi-Fi bilt in (Is it realy needed for every one?) - Bluetooth (is it realy needed?) - Cell - memory cards readers - Include the cost of mantaining the PsN live on the price of every Ps3 sold ################ -WiFi: yes it is needed as hardly anyone likes putting extra wires in their living room, and if you think about it, the thing can't be more than $4 at mass production level. Only because one company on the market charges $100 for a laughable WiFi connector that does not mean that $100 is the cost of one. The Wii has WiFi, too, did not seem to raise the cost much ... -Bluetooth: the controller works via Bluetooth, hence YES it is needed, and again, the hardware is in the sub $ range for regular Bluetooth chips. Specially at the x million order margin -cell: is that a point or just general hate against the cell ? it would not cost that much more than the xbox cpu considering the chips have about the same surface area. Even the development costs where shared as IBM uses the design for their high end servers, unlike the xbox'es chip design that was fully paid by MS -memory card readers: last time i looked there ain't anymore in the units, so thats fixed, right? -Cost of PSN is handled via GAME licenses, not via hardware sales from the units. That has already been stated several times. Developers pay a fee for the PSN usage, the rest is financed via the Store. Home will be financed via the store and in-home billboards. So except the WiFi there is nothing excessively there. Maybe the great QA is a reason for the higher unit cost. Its a well known fact that shoddy hardware costs less in the short term, hence so many cheap electronics are made in china and sold in the west to break in record time. On Topic: the article is "advertised" as CNN money article, while in fact it is a blog post by a guy who constantly hates upon anything Sony. And reading his pseudo-arguments, i think he is somehow confused. Cause except the nov07 vs nov08 comparison there is nothing in there that has any fact value. And considering that Sony already sold MUCH more in 08 than in 07 overall, i somehow don't think that a single month with a negative year over year index is making them quit, especially cause the overall performance was ok. At the end of the year they will have sold what? 90% of the Xbox360 sales this year? .. at double the price .. Yeah, they certainly quit over that... *rolleyes* |
Game, set, match. Good job.
I'm not going to dig through this thread and chance finding any more posts from people who actually thought this blog post was worth a damn. It'll just be disheartening.
