The Yen is Killing Sony - Is a PS3 Price Cut Even Possible for 2009??

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Kyros said:
Again this is bullshit. I don't know who is manufacturing each PS3 part. But most likely its pretty much identical to the 360. Processor from IBM(USA?), GPU from NVIDIA(Taiwan?), put together in China? and so on and so forth. Yen-Dollar conversion may lower their profits in yen but it hardly makes manufacturing a PS3 more expensive for them. At least not much.

 

I don't think anyone said it was going to make it more expensive to manufacture it. This will just affect their revenue.

Last week Sony made ¥36,480 of $399*
This week Sony will make ¥35,798 of the same $399*

*Just an example, Sony doesn't actually make $399 per console sold

 

 

@NJ5

*Points to Kyros' avatar...

I hadn't realized its been dropping straight for three months...