| johnsobas said: how do people actually think PS3 could be $99??? The PS2 was a much more basic system, the PS3 is full of bells and whistles. Particularly the hard drive and wi-fi are worrying because they don't go down in price much at all. Then there is inflation. The only SKU that has any chance at $100 is the 360 4 gb version. You can't have a ps3 without a hard drive so it's just not happening. |
the wifi isnt even N band and those wifi cards cost dirt cheap for PC's, they probably cost sony peanuts when buying millions of them.
Same with HDD, they are already interested in buying many million HDD's for the PS4's, so adding a few million PS3 HDD's to the order will be cheap for them (especially for the 12GB SKU's).
Also, its not necessary for them to make a profit on the hardware, they are interested in the money they will get from software, including all the digital content that people wont ever see if they cant afford a PS4 (or dont think its worth buying yet).
I can see them getting 20m sales in 3 years, but I can also see them ditching the PS3 after 2 more years considering developers didnt want to use the cell processor to begin with so they wont support it as long as they supported the PS2.
I would still put my money on PS3 beating the wii.
