Pristine20 said:
goddog said:
Pristine20 said:
FishyJoe said:
I think you're underestimating the costs. You have to build an entirely new production line with different parts. |
I wouldn't call it "entirely new", it's something they were doing before.
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yea, but it would be its own production line, require a new board design that will be different from the ones used in other PS so cost will be higher, and a line will have to be retooled to handle it. if they make the change it will be best to do it across the whole line. other wise cost will get out of hand. .... it would have to make up a large % of sales to avoid that, like say the amount the core is for the xbox 360 where the board has been moded to take a lager flash ram unit, a far more simple mod then adding hardware from a prior gen to help out a SW emulator run last gen games... thats all kinds of modifications
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If you ask me, I think one reason sony discontinued BC is to save ailing ps2 sales since that is all profit but I could be wrong. I really don't think the cost difference is that great except they blew up all the plants that made mgs4 ps3s. I'm taliking of simply getting old plants back to working condition and these new ps3s would be sold for $100 more.
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Its a lot more difficult to change a MB layout then it is to slap a new case on a unit. ever wonder why the rest of the xbox line got hdmi when the elite came out? its cheaper to do it that way. cases are cheap boards are not, and if your going to have different boards sales of both need to be very good.
