drkohler said:
a) The redesigned PS2 appeared around feb/mar last year, in Europe. That left a lot of unsellable old PS2 to be returned... b) You think Sony makes real profit selling a PS2's at $99 (remember when Sony removed the two PS2 chips from the PS3 and saved $100 according to many "analysts". Go figure if those two Ps2-core-chips alone saved them $100)? c) You very conveniently left out the key points of my post. d) I don't know where you got that idea from. Certainly not from my post. There is no question that Sony is still losing too much money from the production of PS3 (not from the manufacturing of the PS3). The reason is everyone's guess (although there is a rumour that Sony was pulled over the table by NVidia. But that 3-year contract ends in the near future and let's hope that better business people are in command now). |
Slightly off topic, but currently the ps2 has been refined to the point the cpu, gpu and RDRAM have been combined into a single chip. They've reduced so many parts they can now fit the power brick inside the ps2 slim case and still have room to spare. It's genuinely amazing, specially when you consider how tame Microsoft has been on that front...
Maybe it's hopeful thinking, but I wonder when (if ever) Sony will have enough financial breathing room to slot that ps2 ASIC inside a ps3 again.