I need to find Wedbush Morgan's pre-$599 analysis of the PS3 costs.
Their analysis was just about 100% spot-on about what costs and retail were going to be. Their big issue was that the cell was, by far, one of the most expensive technologies to reduce the price on, due to it being far more proprietary than the Blue Ray was.
Not only this, the dev time, as cars said, to move the Cell to a 3rd party to produce would be monumental. Setting up the dies to make the PS3s cell would be very difficult to do, and would take Sony months or years, expecially with them vying for 65nm and 45nm processes.
IMO, I'm excited for a PS3 price drop. Not just for the fact that PS3s will sell more, but because the 360 would be forced to drop the price, and make more console sales.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
