nightsurge said:
Really? I just bought one of high quality brand new for $160 at Best Buy even.
Really? That sure is interesting. I just looked up Best Buy.com . And the cheapest Blu-Ray player is $199.99. Guess you just get crazy good deals eh? LOL. Click here LOLs
pricegrabber rules you noob
Oh and the Blu-Ray players will decrease differently than a blu-ray DRIVE in the PS3. The Blu-Ray drive in the PS3 only costs about $80-90, while blu-ray players are still $160-500+ PC BR drives are $60. Blu-Ray players will therefore lower in price "faster" than teh blu-ray drive in the PS3 because 10% of even the cheapest model of player is still more than 10% of the Blu-Ray drive in the PS3.
Seriously... think things through man.
Riddle me this, What component in the Blu-Ray players is sparking this drastic decrease in price? I guess the PS3 Blu-Ray Drive doesn't contain that component...right?
its called economies of scale. If you produce massive amounts of the same thing, then over time, fixed costs go down as production increases. Think of it like this. If it takes a machine 4 hours to heat up to the right temperature, costing you 5k$ per hour while heating and only 2k per hour while running, then the smartest thing to do is never stop producing. There are innumerable ways to cut costs like this, but only when you are making huge numbers of them. ADDITIONALLY, the PS3 BR drive is actually a higher quality BR player than most. If you were into the whole HDDVD vs BR debate, many HDDVD people were saying how BR 1.1spec or something was terrible and that the only "real" future-proof BR drive was the PS3 BR drive.
Seriously, think things through man.
And since we are speaking like we know the future, I say that Microsoft CAN drop the price $100 if they wanted to. They aer likely to make the switch to Valhalla (single 65nm chip for both CPU/GPU) which will drastically reduce heat and costs. I also say that any PS3 price cut is likely only to be $50, and will still not overtake the 360's sales. I also say that Microsoft will cut again at the perfect time for the holidays so as to have the best price at the perfect time to absolutely crush the PS3 again.
Microsoft could drop the price $100 if they wanted to, but then where do they go? When did I ever say the PS3 will over take the 360s sales? A $100 dollar price cut would let the PS3 take over WW sales on a week to week basis. (Just like it did throughout 2008). I agree a 50$ price cut is more likely though. This will close the gap between Xbox 360 and PS3 on a week to week basis and not hurt Sony's bottom line nearly as much.
And really, when you sell your console for HALF the price of your competitor...Is it really some "crushing"victory worth mentioning? I find it kind of sad actually. The cheapest console on the market still can't touch the Wii on a week to week basis. Even with that AMAZING software lineup. 
the wii is a fad, itll burn out in 6-7 months
Oh... and from our last convo where you said integrated graphics "could easily play Mass Effect" on PC. I won't start bring all the info I gathered into this thread. Just remember that chart of video cards I posted, and how the integrated 7100 was actually much worse than the minimum required 6600GT that you so kindly included as the minimum spec.
Unless you've tried to run Mass Effect on that card, you really have nothing other than assumptions to go on (Which is par for the course for you). I seem to remember a guy who worked at Dell who also said that Mass Effect would run on that PC.
people at dell will tell you anything to get you to buy a pc from them.
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