HappySqurriel said:
Maybe, but probably not ... The biggest mistake any console manufacturer ever made when it comes to producing an inexpensive console was include a hard-drive as a default. Hard-drives are very cost effective in a per-(mega/giga/tera)byte measure but, no matter how old they get, they never become an inexpensive component; in 2012, when Sony still has to devote $40 to $60 towards their hard-drive it will be amazingly difficult to reduce the price of the PS3 to $100 ... With manufacturing, distribution, and the tiny ammount of retail mark-up I wouldn't expect the PS3 to ever be (much) below $150 to $200 unless Sony was taking a loss on every unit sold. |
Easy: they can put out a cheap model with a smallish solid state drive. Even with HDD increasing in size and never falling under a certain cost, solid state will always be available for smaller and cheaper solutions.
