Is Sony really losing that much MORE money on the PS3 after price cuts?

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DOATS1 said:
thats an unfair comparision because at launch there was already a model launched a $499 aswell, why didnt he compare that? im sorry i have to disagree on that one. you can call it a $200 price cut when its a totally different model. the model that was priced $599 at launch does not have the same features as the model that is priced $399 today.

Check the estimate, it accounts for removed features, but I agree that it isn't really the best comparison.  And I assume the $599 model is used because Isupply estimated the difference in cost between it and the $499 20GB model was less than $100(So Sony's lost the least on the 60GB model).  I don't think the 40GB's lack of features accounts for the $100 difference in price from the 80GB now, so I think a better comparison would be an estimate of the $499 80GB.