| SRLemmiwinks said: Wasnt there an article posted here on this site about Sony selling the Cell manufacturing off to... Toshiba? Anyways, in that article it breaks down how much money they are saving on the more refined techniques and better chips (ie 65nm and the soon to be (next year maybe?) 45nm) I was pretty sure at least it did, and if not I know I found somewhere, like Cnet or an equivalent tech site a break down of the prices of its components, and it all came to about even on each console sold at the new price points. In there it also went to say that at the current rate of price reduction and upgrading of techniques (like not having to scrap so many Cells due to production flaws) that Sony could not only drop the price to 299 next Q4 but at least break even on consoles at that price point. I'll dig around and see if I can find the links, though it doesnt really bother me that much, this site loves predictions, so I'll say its going to be profitable (or break even) on ever console sold by the end of 2008. |
If they could break even at $299 why wouldn't they drop to that level, since they are in third place at the moment
Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)
