| NJ5 said:
This means the price has decreased around 60% since launch, while production costs have decreased 70%... the price has decreased almost as much as the production cost, which means Sony is losing less money than at launch, but not by a huge margin, and probably not by a big enough margin to make the PS3 hardware profitable yet (as they were losing obscene amounts of money at launch). |
The way you state these percentages is pretty misleading. You could say that, with the given conversion rates, if the ratio between revenue and expense was 1:1 at launch, then its now 4:3, which is a LOT better sounding than the "60% decrease, 70% decrease" percentages you threw out appear at first glance.
Of course, we knew that the ratio wasn't 1:1 at launch, but I sincerely doubt that it was much less than 3:4, which does certainly imply break-even or a small profit on the slim. Using the USD numbers of $600 to $840 implies a small loss in the US, but I but I believe the ratio is different in the different regions.
