The Hypocrisy and Irony of 4K Blu-ray Exclusion

[mjk45]

NightDragon83 said:

mjk45 said:

 Blu-Ray wasn't the only factor in the PS3's price point, the cell had an equal if not greatershare in the cost.

Actually both the Nvidia "Reality Synthesizer" GPU and Blu-Ray drive cost considerably more than the Cell CPU according to this tear-down report of the launch model PS3's from November 2006...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20061117130000.html

$125 for an optical drive is astronomical considering the 360's DVD drive cost only a fraction of that. If the PS3 had launched at say $399 for the standard model it might have been a much different story last gen.

That's interesting since a lot  of negative press was reported at the time about the cells cost and how it impacted pricing, remember crazy Ken.

Still even if you took away the Blu-ray's whole $125 from the price it still leaves the manufacture price for the 60 gig model at $715,hell if you take both the Blu-Ray and the Cell out you still end up with a $616 price point and most of what's left as comparable parts in the 360.