What is the cost to manufacture a PS4 these days? And should Sony cut?

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Intrinsic said:
They will drop the prices, but my guess is by no more than $50 for each SKU.

And they aren't being "short-sighted" it's rather the opposite. They have already ole over 110M consoles, the userbase they have to secure are already in that 110M. Right now, the PS4/PS4pro probably cost them no more than $180 and $230 respectively to make. So they are making a lot of money from the sale of that hardware, money that would help offset what they would be losing on the PS5.

I don't think $50 would be worth it.  That's not as psychologically as big a deal as getting under $200 and into that more impulse buy territory.  Hell cut out the disc drive on the PS4 and get it under $200 for slightly better profit than simply putting the current slim there.  That would cut a few bucks off production.  And you said it's not short sighted then cite something that's in the moment.  Cutting the transition period costs.  I'm talking long term.  The people who buy PS4 now will buy PS5 later in the gen if they can get a cheap PS4.