Sony breaking even on PS3/making profit 40gb PS3

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Jandre02 said:

I weezy said:
Lets say Sony stuck to their guns all last year and kept the prices of PS3 at $500-600..

They would have sold around 6 Million PS3's...Maybe less

But they slightly modified the PS3's guts and lowered cost and are losing even more money.

So you could say Sony did an alright job improvising with their mistakes.
But are losing even more money.

This is just funny now. Why is it that people want the PS3 to be losing money so bad? Its like you all forget that SONY OWNED GAMING FOR 7 YEARS! They know what they were doing, its not like they made the PS3 and then said "oh shit, my bad, that was a complete mistake."

They messed up a few things, but blu-ray was the main cost. I think the cheapest Blu-ray player was like 1,000 when the PS3 came out wasnt it? Now its sub-$400, yet no one believes that Sony cut costs?

The production costs have come down much more than $100 dollars since launch. They have also taken some production parts of of developement, and cut down production errors. You dont have to believe it if you dont want to, just know that it is very likely that Sony will reach $299 this year.

 

 

I doubt we'll see a price cut before November, around black friday in the US.  When Sony says they expect to make a profit on PS3 hardware AND software by mid 2009, that tells you there is no way they are profitable on just the hardware right now.  Wishful thinking.