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DM235 on 30 September 2013
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crissindahouse said:
Max King of the Wild said:
TruckOSaurus said:

I think the comparison stands. The Blu-Ray did drive the cost of the PS3 up and it was a feature that not everybody wanted but if you wanted a PS3, you had no choice in the matter.

No. If the ps3 was a ps2 but with bluray then it wouldnt have been close to 600dollars (if sony was still willing to take a loss.. which they did with ps2 so im sure they would have.) The costly cell, wifi and included HDDraised the price and bluray was a natural progression

i believe blu-ray was the most expensive part of the whole ps3. like 300 bucks production costs or something like that.

The estimated cost for the BluRay drive was $107.  It was the most expensive component in the PS3.  The nVidia GPU, followed by the Cell CPU, were the next most expensive items at $83 and $64, respectively.

http://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/2237/playstation-3-initial-release-hardware-analysis-60gb20gb-teardown