Profit Numbers: Nintendo, Sony (Game Segment) and Microsoft (EDD Segment)

[Bitmap Frogs]

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.

 

 

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.

Don't you know that the same thing can be said about opposed hypotheses too?

 

 

It's not me who's attempting to figure out costs on something comparing apples to oranges.