HappySqurriel said:
Have you also noticed that Sony's consoles have been getting progressively more expensive to manufacture? The PS1 was sold for $300 and (probably) turned a profit, the PS2 was sold for $300 and rumoured to take a $100 loss, and the PS3 was sold for $600 and rumoured to have lost up to $300 per system at launch ... 8GB of high performance DDR3 memory is selling for $200 to $300 today, and 8GB of high performance GDDR5 memory would be more expensive than that. Certainly, you can get 8GB of low perfomance DDR3 memory for very little but pairing that up with a high performance CPU and GPU would be like creating a high performance car with a 3 speed transmission. |
Don't you know that the cause of the loss was the blu-ray? each drive did cost $300-$350 for sony in 2006, if the BD cost the current $50 or less back in 2006, Sony would have launched the same PS3 with profit. BD is not a big deal anymore, as I said, it costs less than $50 nowadays.
