It is impressive how many different things Sony and its partners have done to bring the cost of the PS3 down. Processor and GPU shrinks; Blu Ray laser shrinks, Diode price reductions, removing the emotion engine, and so forth.
As someone said earlier, it's very apparent that Sony has done a much better job of cutting costs than Microsoft has.
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