| Cerebralbore101 said: A Blu-Ray reader/writer costs about $100 on newegg. So I would imagine that Sony can get them for $50. There have been multiple rumors that Sony has been struggling to keep PS5 below $499. Assuming that means their disc version struggling to meet that price point, then their discless version would be $100 to $75 cheaper. Removing a Blu-Ray drive would only reduce cost to build by $50 at most, but then Sony would just subsidize the other $50 with extra profits from digital sales. So I would guess that the disk version of PS5 is $550 to $525, and the diskless version is $475 to $425. Series X will be $50 less than whatever the Disk PS5 is, and $50-$75 more than whatever the Diskless PS5 costs. |
The only rumors wit regards to BOM and struggles were citing a BOM of $450 for the PS5 and the XSX to be slightly higher than that. And that is for the disc version of either console.
That would be considered a "struggle" being that the PS4 had a BOM o $380. So basically, the PS5 cost sony $70 more to make. But even the $380 PS4 that retailed for $399 had to sell at least one first-party game to break even. This suggests that between the retailers cut, shipping and taxes there is an additional $60 or so dollars o additional costs not shown in a box breakdown.
That puts a $450 PS5 (disc sku) at a total cost of around $510/$520.
A disc drive would cost sony a lot less than $50. Probably around $35 at the worst. This puts the digital SKU at around $415 to make. And a total cost of $475.
And this is where the subsidies you speak of comes in, sony can afford to take a much bigger hit on the digital SKU and sell that for anywhere between $399 - $449 ($75 - $25) loss respectively. Knowing they would make a lot more money fro the people that buy that sku and sell the disc version at a loss of s little as $10/$20.
