Alby_da_Wolf said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Very rough calculation: if PS3 is breaking even at $400, subtracting HDD cost, cost difference between Cell and Xenon, cost difference between BD and DVD, and all other smaller differences, do you think we get a sum smaller than $200? BD drives are quite cheap now, an 80GB HDD is cheap too, Cell has already been produced in more than 20 million units, while Xenon almost 30 million, and it's simpler, so we know is cheaper than Cell, but not enormously cheaper. OTOH the price difference between Pro and Arcade is high enough, compared to the additional equipment, to make Pro break even or even profit a little bit.
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Your post is full of misconceptions.
You don't know how much all those components in the ps3 cost. Therefore you can't take that as a basis for your calculation.
In fact, you are ignoring associated costs, manufacturing costs, yields, and other unknown/unforeseen costs.
I call your whole post uninformed speculation, and I am being generous. You basically want to believe the Arcade is losing money.
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Don't you know that the same thing can be said about opposed hypotheses too?
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I have to side with Alby on thi
s one. The only real difference is the BD drive, and the wireless. They rest of the costs are going to work out about the same, excepting some idiotic contract which Sony or MS would have canned long ago. The Cell and RSX are not much different, in terms of cost, to manufacture, than the Xenon and Xenos. The Cell production lines had teething problems, but they were worked out long, long ago.
BD drive, and wireless networking -- those are the only serious hardware differences which add to the expense of the PS3. Honestly I think the X360 controller may be a tad more expensive to manufacture than the DS3 though, and its included with the X360, obviously. I doubt the difference is enough to counter the wireless networking cost, but it may be close.
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