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letsdance on 21 January 2010
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jarrod said:
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letsdance said:
jarrod said:
letsdance said:
isupply just came out with another estimate...

Ps3 cost reduction > Ps3 price reduction

Can I get an apology?

That's materials/assembly for the console only (which is all iSupply teardowns cover), being a $37 loss.  Doesn't include controller, cables, boxing, manuals, etc, so overall production costs are likely closer to say a $45 loss.  And that's in terms of MSRP, retail buys in the consoles slightly cheaper.

They'd probably be breaking even on the 250GBs though. 

We do have 2 legitimate estimates now though, and iSupply's is more recent (Dec 2009), so it's probably the better one to go with.

actually... it does include that stuff... the controller is down for 15 dollars.

Er, can you link me then?  Because the links I'm looking at don't have that, and iSupply teardowns are always console only.


http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/40745-land-in-sight-sony-cuts-ps3-production-cost-by-35 "iSuppli believes that Sony pays $46.46 for the Cell processor (down from $64.40 for the 90 nm model) and $58.01 for the Nvidia GPU, down from $83.17 previously. The market research firm estimates that the PS3 console has a material cost of about $415.74; the controller (with 189 individual parts) may cost $14.84, while manufacturing is estimated at $18.14." I'd assume those parts you list are under "other components. I know the controller is.

its so always console only they have other parts in their tear down. AND MANUFACTURING AND TESTING!