| numonex said: http://au.gamespot.com/news/6202681.html PS3 manufacturing costs are around $449. PS3 retails for $399. Loss of $50 on each PS3 sold as of December 2008 Rassweiler thinks that the next revision of the PS3 hardware, likely due sometime in 2009, could see the console cease to be a loss leader for Sony. That would help it join Nintendo, which makes a modest profit on each $249 Wii it continues to sell at a staggering rate. It is unclear how much money Microsoft currently makes or loses manufacturing the problem-plagued Xbox 360, the hard-drive-less Arcade variety of which now costs just $199. |
I have big doubts about this sort of cost analysis (though I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion).
They don't seem to account for currency fluctuations. In this day age, currencies are very volatile and they must significantly affect production cost analysis, especially when comparing against the euro (which is usually not used to buy components, but counts heavily towards sales revenue).
My Mario Kart Wii friend code: 2707-1866-0957
