Sony and the PS3. How bad is it?

[Tharthesos]

PalmiNio said:

Tharthesos said:

Not only that: Sony will always have problem in dropping the price because they are buying different components from different manufacturers. One big example is nVidia (who is a real bitch on this matter... go ask MS why this time they chose ATI instead!!!) and its GPU. Sony doesn't own the patent on that component, so it cannot give the manufacture plan to someone else to build it for them!

Read these if you want to know more:

http://www.xbreporter.com/xbox_2_news.php

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE5DD153BF934A35751C0A9659C8B63&fta=y

http://www.neowin.net/news/gamers/03/04/03/will-nvidia-microsoft-split-on-xbox-2

I know that the main issue for MS and Xbox 1 was both nVidia and Intel producing and owning the chips in Xbox 1, combined with HDD prices.
But doesn't Sony own the RSX? I'm pretty sure that they bought the chip from nVidia as a late solutions after GPU CELL was in the bin? It says Sony RSX on the chip, in Xbox 1 it said Intel/nvidia.

 

* edit. Sony owns the rights of RSX, it was co-designed by nVidia but just like Microsoft owns Xenos from ATI. The difference was that Sony produced RSX in their own fabs which was sold to toshiba this year.

 

 

Sorry, I went through internet and did some research and turned out you are right about the GPU's matter!!!

So, my theory crumbles there!

But this would also mean that PS3 still is expensive to manufacture!