Theory on how the PS4 is stronger AND cheaper.

[DucksUnlimited]

catofellow said:

DucksUnlimited said:
You think they're taking a $40 loss on a peripheral? The original Kinect was a standalone product but it was still sold at a large profit.

Not being bundled, the eye obviously isn't a selling point for the PS4. The only reason it exists is as an extra source of revenue, just as the original PSeyes and Kinect were. Your "guarantee" is completely blind speculation.

Never said they were taking a $40 dollar loss.  Your inference that I said that is just blind speculation.

Same rationale applies to consoles being $100 more expensive for just a larger hard drive, or phone being $100 more expensive with extra flash memory.  Those products don't justify the increase in cost either, but they are the reason for it.

I never inferred that you did. I asked if that's what you thought. Hence the question mark.

The launch of a console is not the time to try and make a significant profit off of the hardware. If you're suggesting that Sony would have tried to make a $40+ profit off of the PSEye when they planned to bundle it, that goes against the long term strategy of taking losses at the start of a gen to gain an install base advantage, which is what Sony did with the PS1, PS2 and especially the PS3. It would be a stupid, shortsighted business plan, and there's no reason to believe, let alone try and guarantee, that they would go that route, from either a historical or business perspective.