One thing to keep in mind people...
When a company makes a profit on the sale of one unit of a product (aka it costs them 90$ to produce and ship it and they get 100$ for that unit), it does not mean the company has many ANY profit on said product. It just means they've stopped bleeding money.
Do you seriously think that either Sony or MS has made a dime off the 360 or ps3? They're both still trying to dig themselves out of the hole they dug by selling below production cost (or potentially digging a bigger hole). Not to mention development costs on top of that before they sold the first console.
I can't believe that Sony would be willing to sell another SKU at 400$ if they are still selling at a loss. A 40GB HDD is liable to be more expensive than an 80GB HDD, not cheaper. These things aren't priced by the gigabyte. And how much do you really think a couple of USB ports cost? What exactly do they have left to cut (from the hardware) and why didn't they cut all of it already and sell that one instead of the 80GB version?
If you are a company that has already spent billions on a product, how can you justify cutting the price again and again, while bleeding even more money? They do have stock holders they need to pacify. It doesn't matter one wit if they sell 10 billion PS3's if they've lost even 1$ per console, it just means they've screwed themselves to "win".
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