redspear on 03 July 2007
| ssj12 said: Just to point out the blu-ray diode in all blu-ray players dropped from $125 to like $8 each. Also they did remove the EE+GS and 32mb of ram from all PS3s in production. That lowered production costs a good $75. The Cell and RSX are now 65nm so that cut about $75 off of them. Plus overall hardware shrinkage due to removal and all that had to lower costs roughly $30. Im thinking the price drop will be anywhere from $50 - $100 with a slim chance of $150 - $200 if they can cut even more costs. |
The 125 dollar cost is for the WHOLE blue Ray Drive. The cost reduction is significant though since the Diode went from around 65 or so to 8 dollars.
Only europe removed the EE as far as I know and I haven't heard about the 32 Megs of RAM. The Cell i the PS3 as far as I know is still only 90mm.
