Sony closer to breakeven on PS3

[Kasz216]

Euphoria14 said:

Kasz216 said:

NJ5 said:

letsdance said:

NJ5 said:

letsdance said:

NJ5 said:

letsdance said:
I also heard isupply goes off what the part goes for (or would go for if it were availble) at retail. So basically doesnt take into consideration bulk discounts.

No way... where can you buy 512 MB of memory for $10 ? Or a Blu-ray drive for $66 ?

 

newegg. and that obviously is not bulk.

The Blu-Ray drive, apparently yeah (though it's like the cheapest one). But the memory and especially the hard drive, those prices seem lower than retail (and newegg confirms).

This doesn't really give me a lot of confidence on iSuppli's data...

 

Id assume itd be 40 dollars for the mem... considering in the "quantity" column there is a 4,

 

In that case it looks too expensive. Lol. And the hard drive looks too cheap.

Anyway, it seems way too weird to use retail prices to calculate a manufacturing cost, so I find it hard to believe.

 

There cost breakdowns have NEVER been accurate.  Though they've always undershot not overshot how much the PS3 cost.

Keep in mind this comes from the same people with the "declining wii userbase" chart.

I thought that chart respresented active userbase and not overall sales totals.

That's why i said "declining wii userbase" and not "declining wii sales."

Based on the software tie numbers... the Wii isn't the one who has a "declining userbase" problem.

(Not that anyone is, but it shows the error of the Isuppli report.)