- Look at this article from PC World of November 16 2006 ( http://www.pcworld.com/article/127906/article.html )
"The combined materials and manufacturing costs for each device come to about $806 for the model with a 20GB hard drive, excluding the cost of the controller, cables, and packaging, iSuppli said.
With a suggested retail price of $499, that would mean Sony is taking a loss of about $307 on each console it sells. The differential for the 60GB model is less, with the cost exceeding the price tag by $241."
- On the other hand, Microsoft:
"By comparison, the materials and manufacturing costs for the hard-drive version of Microsoft's rival device, the Xbox 360 are $323, iSuppli estimated. That's less than the suggested retail price of $399."
- Then, they talk about the "Retarded Cell Proccessor":
"Most of the cost comes from the PlayStation 3 console's processing power. The multicore Cell processor alone, which was co-designed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, and is the gaming device's main processing engine, accounts for about 10 percent of the cost of each machine, iSuppli said.
The research company also highlighted Sony's use of dual graphics chips from Nvidia and Toshiba, and its use of four 512-megabit DRAM chips from Samsung Electronics. Sony's motherboard probably costs the company $500 in total, compared to $204 for the Xbox 360, iSuppli said. This is all good news for customers, who get all that computing power for a relative bargain. iSuppli called the PlayStation 3 an "engineering masterpiece," with a motherboard that looks more like that of an enterprise server or network switch than a games console. The console provides "more processing power and capability than any consumer electronics device in history," iSuppli said."
Its amazing how people love to shit on Sony, but when the Ps3 was released, they sold a +800$ cutting edge console for 200$ less. Not to mention the BluRay, Bluetooth, etc. When they are the "broke" company according to almost everyone.
Lets see if Nintendo or Microsoft, which are bathing on 100$ bills do this.
