Ail on 15 May 2009
| Squilliam said: Does anyone else think that they are quoting their costs against the retail cost, so they imply that its $40 above what you pay at retail and they didn't factor in the retailers margins so the difference may actually be higher than stated by about $18 or so. |
If I remember well from last gamestop financial report, their margin on hardware is around 5%( I know, very small).
Seeing how the Sony guy that leaked the information is the CFO I would expect the number he gave is actual cost for Sony compared to how much Sony sells the hardware to retailers.
If you factor a 20$ margin we have something like Sony sells the PS3 to retailers for 379$ and it actually costs 419$ to make and ship to them...
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
