| 11ht11 said: wouldnt sony loose lots of money with another price cut? i heard it cost 700 dollars to make a ps3, |
Last I heard it was under $400 to make a PS3, so they are probably breaking even on the cheap system and making money on the expensive system.
But I think that no company will drop their prices but I think Microsoft has the most incentive to do so. The PS3 has outsold the 360 for 11 or 12 weeks straight now and they got a lot of big name games and big name exclusives coming which will boost hard ware sales. Microst doesn't have the big name games coming and so to stimulate sales they could cut prices. That would also give a sales boost to some of their bigger name games like Mass Effect/Halo 3/Gears of War as people will have heard of these games and will be needing games to play on their new system.
That being sad, if Microsoft does drop their price Sony will quickly follow. I think Sony will drop prices by $100 no matter what Microsoft does as it would put the price of cheap system near the price of the Wii and part of the reason (I believe) for the Wii's success is its low price compaired to the other systems. With a smaller cell prossessor that is cheaper to make and puts out less heat, they can also put in a smaller fan (has to do less work) so they would be able to minimize the loss or start making money again rather quickly, they just have to figure out a way to mass produce the new chip reliably. Same goes for the smaller BD that they have been able to make.
