PS4 sales surpass 91.6 million, Spiderman over 9 million

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DonFerrari said:

Intrinsic said:

Its kinda possible. But......

The essentials are APU/RAM/HDD/BRD/Controller. Now at best (and this is being very optimistic) it cost them like $20 fr each f those components. Thats already $100 right there and you have not factored in other things like cooling/assembly/packaging/cables/PSU/PCB/Supporting chips and memory.......etc.

And remember, that $100 is being extremely generous because the APU/RAM/BRD/BRD all cost n less than around $25 each. Definitely not $20.

Best they can do if they really want to butcher the system is take out the HDD and put in like 256GB emmc nand flash drive (and the cheap slow kind) and d away with the disc drive.  Maybe then they can get it to $99.

Guess you skipped a little... sell for 99 what would cost 149 to make. Get the profit from added PS+ customer, SW and capturing people for PS5 in the future.

Nobody sells hardware at a loss late in a consoles life, that's a strategy for the first couple years.