Legend11 said:
hoerenkind said:
Legend11 said:
Here's iSuppli's breakdown of cost for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 in November 2006: PS3 and Xbox 360: Breakdown of production costs (US$) | Item | PS3 (60GB version) | Xbox 360 (20GB hard drive version) | Motherboard, CPU, graphics processor, chipset, etc. | 352 | 204 | Optical disc drive/player | 125 | 19.45 | Hard disc drive | 54 | 43 | Power supply | 37.50 | 25.50 | Bluetooth, 802.11 b/g network modules | 19.60 | N/A | Other components | 150.50 | N/A | Chassis and related | 61.75 | 25.25 | Assembly | 40 | 6.10 | Total cost | 840.35 | 323.30 | Retail price | 599 | 399 |
The falcon chipset released in 2007 is known to have reduced the cost of the system. Assuming an extremely conservative 25% drop in costs since 2006 a premium cost Microsoft ~$242.78 to make. It's extremely likely in my opinion that the actual cost of making a premium is between $200-$242.78.
The reason why the PS3's manufacturing price has dropped so much compared to the Xbox 360 in one year is because the Xbox 360 experienced such a drop in it's first year of production (it went from ~$715 to ~$323.30 to produce. |
that total cost is misleading it should be total production cost
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That is the combined materials and manufacturing cost. Here, see for yourself, here's an even more indept breakdown in which they state that it's the combined materals and manufacturing cost: http://www.isuppli.com/news/default.asp?id=6919 |
exactly so marketing/shipping costs are NOT included
