Gilgamesh said:
Everything was overpriced in the PS3 lol This is from early 2010 and should give a rough idea of what the components cost at launch (PS3 cost about $850 to make at launch), hard to find the 2006-2007 break down of each components, Isupply deleted it or something? So I'm sure blu-ray was over $100 at the begining according to Isupply Sony was losing $250 for every console when the PS3 launched, lets completely take out the optical drive and assume that the Blu-ray player cost $150 at launch, that'd still be a $100 loss on every console for the PS3 when it first released. So even if they had a DVD player they'd still be losing over $100 at launched, they would just get out of the red quicker. But it's hard to say now, the more PS3's sold the more sales for games, so it might of even out a little better by having Blu-ray. |
Yeah the original isuppli page from 2006 is gone but other websites mention that it had RSX at 129 dollars and Cell at 89 dollars at launch. I think the Bluray drive in the PS3 cost Sony around 200 dollars at launch.