Lafiel said:
there is sooo much more to put into the equation: R&D costs, markteting costs, shipment costs, licensing costs, (for companies with less liquidity than Apple) loans/interests - and then there are the retailers who also want to make money by selling the stuff Apple is selling with a huge profit, but they still need way more than 180bucks per unit to get it into the stores and to get the customers into the store |
I understand that Apple is spending more than 180 to sell an iPhone but I'm talking solely about making an iPhone VS an NPG.
If NGP was 500 to manufacture like SONY stated, then considering everything else you'd have to throw in one can only conclude that SONY is suicidal. I'm just working off the only estimates that we have an the fact that SONY stated this thing would be considered "affordable" and the spoke against the 599$ price tag of the PS3. 500$ =/= seem "affordable to me in any light when it comes to a game system and I payed that much for my PS3 years back.