Sony flexible on PlayStation 4 cost.

[DanneSandin]

drkohler said:

platformmaster918 said:

DanneSandin said:

Euphoria14 said:

DanneSandin said:
$349.99 confirmed ^^

Well be prepared to be happy come this holiday :D

what makes you so confident?  Did you breakdown the cost for each component?  I'm hoping you're right but have you looked specifically?

That $349 is an idiotic assumption and would mean Sony takes a $300 hit on the first batch of PS4s.

Without even seeing anything, my breakdown looks like (very crude, could be off by 30%):

1. SoC:  2 Jaguar cores and glue logic $60. gpu $60, enhanced blu-ray compander/processor $20, AMD $20 = $160

2. Memory 32 2Gbit gddr5 chips $90

3. pcb $20

4. blu-ray drive $20

5.ps $20

6. other mb components $30

7. controller, "Kinect" cameras $50

8. hd $25

8. assembly, case, "stuff" $10

That gets me a manufacturing cost around $425 (assuming good production yields which is a mighty assumption since all chips are "untested")

So my guess is $529 for a full PS4 and $449 for a lighter version. This would reduce initial production losses to around $100 per PS4

Are you talking about manufacturing costs? $349 will be the retail price ;)