Why do people think the Ps5 costs more to manufacture?!

[drkohler]

PotentHerbs said:

Honestly, it just sounds like wishful thinking from some people.

Bloomberg reported that Sony is "struggling" to keep PS5 BOM around $450,

Yes and what an idiotic piece of "journalism" that was.

Do you really, really think that MS or Sony have ordered their parts early this year?

Nobody at Sony/MS gives a shit about this year's prices of semiconductors and what not. Both have made reservation/orders possibly around 2018 or early 2019 (the ram for the X360 was ordered three years before production start, for example).

There are laws in mass manufacturing, and those laws were probably in place when Ford started up his first conveyor belt for the Model T.