Sony may be breaking even in 3 months time

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Noobie said:

theprof00 said:
There are not many difference between the slim and the fat.
It's just shipping costs and case costs, and some smaller pieces.

When a new model is released costs go up dramatically. They are definitely losing money on it right now, but if they actually do manage to sell however many millions it is before March (equaling 13M for the year), it probably will hit 300.

You also have to realize that the exchange rates on these Japanese products are very hard hitting. Since the US recession, Japan has been losing 30% on everything sold here. That means, even if something costs 300, it's actually costing 390$.

You know how the cost works? i sure dont think so... Sony have moved onto 45nm chips which easily reduce the cost by 50%.. plus they reduced the mother board size also which will also dramatically reduce the cost.. 

Sony sold its fabrication plans of the chips n other hardware to Toshiba.. so Sony dont need to buy new equipments to upgrade these fabrication plants. so ur analysis is pretty flawed honestly...

the chip manufactoring model work a lot differently than conventional manufactoring.

Last all these productions are probably done not in Japan. Probably ASUS n other r assembling PS3 either in Taiwan or China.. so if u have any concrete evidance that they were paying them in Yen than this sounds ok, else last part is pretty flawed also.

And you apparently don't know how much it costs to actually fabricate a PCB.  At the volumes that Sony uses, a smaller PCB won't cut more than $10-20 from the total cost to build.