Global Hardware 1 December 2018

[Intrinsic]

Panicradio said:

Intrinsic said:

From my most recent BOM assessment

	2013 PS4	TODAYs PS4
HDD	$23	$16
BRDrive	$25	$20
RAM	$62	$28
APU	$121	$55
Other	$126	$75 - $100
TOTAL	$357	$194 - $219

So yh, I guess its safe t assume sony is making alot of money on each unit right now.

It should be noted that at this point even the use of 7nm fabrication won't result in much of a drop. Thats because there are a number f things that just can't really et any lower. So 7nm will only bring about a further $40 or so price reduction (APU, Ram and Other will be the only things that et cheaper) which means the lowest price we may see of the PS4 is around $169 at some pint in the future. 

Thank you for that update on it. 🙂 So, then, approximately, Sony is still [only] making something between 45€ and 95€ profit on each standalone console being sold (not the PRO). But figuring profits from PSN subscriptions and at least from 1 game being sold along, well, yeah, Sony's revenue must be in good shape. 🙂 

h its definately in good shape. And has been in this shape since 2016. Because that was the last time that there was a major revision of the hardware. 

Think of it this way. As with the APU, sony buys by the wafer and pays AMD some sort of contracted royalty fee for every single APU. Whenever there is a die shrink then sony basically gets a little over twice the number of chips (pending on fabrication yields) from the exact same wafer. Hence a cheaper APU. And the same applies with RAM. Pre 2016 sny used 16 4Gb Ram modules to arrive at 8GB of Ram. In the PS4 slim there are only 8 x 8Gb modules to get the same 8GB. Aain about a 50% price reduction on RAM.

So its an obvious deliberate choice on sonys part to not drop the PS4 price. And they make about 30% from every game sold on their platform. More obviously if the game is first party or sold from their store.