WereKitten said:
Actually for what I know, retailers make an extremely small margin on consoles, and yes, Sony sells them at close to $400. Retailers mainly margin on accessories, secondarily from games. And the Wii made $6 per console in dec 2007, and we know that it made a profit for Nintendo since launch. Meanwhile, we know that from launch the manufacturing cost of a Wii went down 45%. Do your own math. As to the PS3, it's going to move to 45nm chips this summer, that's supposed to lower the costs by something like 85-150$ (i've read different numbers). Where are you pulling your dates and numbers from? |
That sounds a bit too much. Cell it self cost some where around 50 to 90 $ (Usually I have seen estimations ~60$ to 65 nm chip and ~90$ to 90nm chip). 45 nm chip would reduce cost somewhere ~30$ per chip (uneducated guess). Of course Sony can shrink cooling system of PS3 at same time, but that really can't be worth of 55$ to 120$ per console.
What else Sony can cut from PS3?. Remember that 40 Gb version have 50% less parts than original 80 Gb PS3 version, so how much more they can cut off parts from PS3 without losing features like Wifi? GPU is from NVidia and if Sony did do similar deal with NVidia as Microsoft did with original XBox, then all price reductions of GPU will go to Nvidias pocket. Even Sony had better deal, that 85-150$ estimation sounds just too big to be true.
