Sony confirms internal depletion 60 GB PS3 supply, 80 gig price drop?

[johnsobas]

sharky said:

dgm6780 said:
Final is onto something tho. If only Sony would put out a model with no mem card reader or wi-fi and like a 20-40gb HD for $399 sales would really take off. The HD size matters very little. I mean an 80GB brand name HDD is $55 at newegg.com.

They need to copy MS and have 1 model that is at a considerably lower price point. The difference will be that Sony's bottom price point model is still FULLY functional. They still need to include a HD, just a small one and leave out the extras like wifi and memcard reader.

 Umm, the wif-fi, card reader, etc  dont add hardly any COST. Those things are a couple dollars to add on.

 

And cost is what's really keeping Sony from dropping the price.

 

They cant afford to lose unlimited money. 

If they could do that, then they could just drop the 80GB model to 399, because it costs about the same to produce as your hypothetical 40GB,-wi-fi,-card reader model. 

 

pretty obvious why they got rid of the 20 gig version, because the losses were too big compared to the 60 gig one.  It saved them like $20-30 and they sold it $100 cheaper.