possible impact of a ps3 "arcade"

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fastyxx said:
What would you strip out to reduce the price that much? I'm not sure it's feasible. They certainly aren't going to sell them without hard drives with all the installs. MS can do it because they are not required (though that strategy has obvious drawbacks along with the low price benefits - plus if people upgrade to a hard drive, MS smartly has that market cornered. Sucks as consumers but great for business).

Hard drives are dirt cheap for companies. That would save them perhaps $5. The only reason it worked for Microsoft was that only Microsoft HDDs work on a 360. Any 2.5" HDD works on a PS3, so that would just fail miserably.

They can't take out Bluetooth, because the controller needs it.

WLAN...maybe. But I'm not sure that would cut $120 off the cost...