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ironmanDX said:
DonFerrari said:

PR can't lie.

There is an agreement in place, that is exactly what makes the cost difference between Sony and MS. If you have a contract with a cadence of let's say 10M first year, then 18M for the next 4 years, then 10M again it certainly would have price difference against 5, 9, 5. Even if you say "but they wouldn't have a 5 year contract with quantities, we could go for Sony have a deal for 30M boxes on next 20 months, while MS have 15M there would have difference in the price sold.

There's no chance that many are being ordered though. 15 million? Sure. 30? No chance. Manufacturing and even potentially retail prices would come down before 30 million consoles would be out on the wild.

Then there's a chance of a revision or upgrade before 30 million also.

Whatever quantity you arbitrarily decides for Sony would be at least double of what MS would contract, so scale cost and batch purchase would still apply. Also why would the contract establish a specific design instead of quantities of the chip powering PS5 and revisions along the line? Or do you think Sony would change from AMD to NVidia mid gen? Also contracting a cadence shipment for a 2 year timespam doesn't seem unlikely.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."