Tyrannical on 23 December 2008
| starcraft said: It appears to not factor in assembly costs, as well as distribution and storage costs. This is not good. I thought they were substantially closer to breaking even than this. I wont speculate as the how much those factors add to the $448.73 component cost, but even if it's only a few dollars its a hefty loss for those looking for a price cut soon (like yours truly) so as to pick up the console. |
It also doesn't factor in the R&D costs, which I thought was around $3B. Though that may have included the fab that Sony already sold off to toshiba.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
