| shikamaru317 said: Are you suggesting a $30 price difference between the PS5 and XSX SSD's, or that PS5's SSD literally costs just $30 per console? Because I highly doubt the latter scenario, the 500 GB slow 5400 RPM laptop harddrives in PS4 and XB1 cost Sony and Microsoft $37 back in 2013, and those same hard drives were retailing for around $60 at the time as I recall, so they were paying more than half of retail for them. There is no way in hell that Sony is paying just $30 for an 800 GB+ SSD with speeds that are faster than 90% of PC SSD's on the market today, that would be like 15% of the retail price of a comparable SSD. I would imagine that MS and Sony will need to pay at least 35% of the retail price for comparable PC SSD's, so something like $40 for the Series X SSD and $70-80 for the PS5 SSD. |
Again, if you do not understand how mass manufacturing works, that is not my problem. Go check the spotmarket for ACTUAL prices if you don't believe the prices I quoted. The 500 GByte drives NEVER cost $37 for either Sony/MS (back in the heydays I knew a friend who worked in a hd manufacturing plant so I knew exactly to 5 cents precision the manufacturing price of basic hds). PS: Sony and MS are still selling the same hds now as in 2013, this might give you a clue just how large those orders were initially.
Again, what you imagine or doubt is completely irrelevant, and your absolutely ridiculous idea that the PS5 ssd is twice the price of the SX just shows you have no clue about mass manufacturing, the key word here is MASS (apart from the fact that you didn't understand the simple reasons I gave why the SX ssd is more expensive than the PS5 ssd). We are not talking about R&D costs, just the costs of manufacturing the damn things.
The difference of what people think about what it costs to manufacture something, and what the actual manufacturing costs are, are often staggering. (Happened to me too, I learnt that over many years, in the various mass manufacturing areas whenever I had insight into how much I thought something costs and how much it actually costs, which sometimes was borderline shocking).
Lastly, there is a difference between manufacturing costs and production costs. That hugely depends on the actual product and can range anywhere between factors 1 and 10. My very rough guess is a $30 ssd appears as a $50-$60 product in the final tally of all costs considered but indeed I have no clue as to how Sony/MS determines the production costs of the new consoles (which is another battlefield we don't want to go into).
