"Supply expected to be tight" for 40GB PS3

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drkohler said:

Note that the 40G Model is about production batch number 4 or 5. I estimate the production costs of a 40G model to around $380 (-10%/+5%, depending on certain assumptions).

 

I have the feeling that the upcoming financial report from Sony might prove you wrong. In their last financial conference, they said they were expecting to break even on hardware "later rather than sooner", and that it was not certain it would happen in this fiscal year (ending March 2008). We're many months away from that.

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6573&Itemid=2

“The removal of the negative margin will be when all of these factors have come out. Maybe, marginally, we could achieve this during this year,” Oneda told a Citigroup Securities analyst during a Q&A session. Oneda still couldn’t specify exactly when this break-even point may happen.