PS3 Manufacturing Costs

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Alby_da_Wolf said:
The $40 loss in December 2008, based on last iSuppli estimate abstract (I guess you have to pay them to get the complete papers) is based on October 2008 cost estimates (and it affects units sold in December as obviously Sony started stocking units for Xmas some time before). Being Xmas stocks cleared and stocking smaller during slow seasons, it'quite likely PS3 is already breaking even, components cost drops as times goes by, although die shrinks, the next one still to happen, make it drop more. This said, in EU, thanks to strong € and usually overpriced list price even when € is not so strong, PS3 was most probably breaking even at Xmas and is earning some $ now.
NB All this reasonment assumes iSuppli estimate is near enough to reality, but to Sony advantage is that last time I read a complete iSuppli estimate, they postulated an HDD cost far too high, higher actually than end user price for a single unit at most online stores.

Your post is proven wrong by Sony's official information posted previously in the thread.