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Soundwave 2 hours ago
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BraLoD said:
Soundwave said:

Playstation is a small potatoes product in the grand scheme of thing, they're likely not getting much of a discount on component costs or any priority on those at all. A company like Apple can push their weight around but they ship more iPhones in a quarter than Sony does Playstations in 2 years+. 

If I'm a RAM or HDD supplier, I want my full quote for each and every unit given that I could sell those things at a premium to a dozen AI vendors. 

Did you read my post?

The issue is the CFO reportedly hinted to no price hikes for the PS5 just last month.

So unless the reports were wrong, that would be a big issue, saying something one month and doing the exact opposite the next.

I get that they're trying to mitigate price increases, but that doesn't mean they can just say "hey give us frozen pricing from 6 months ago on components". That's not realistic. Sony doesn't have that kind of sway. 16-17 million Playstations per year is not a ton ... unlikely a vendor is willing to give them a massive discount or get them off the hook from price increases, they might be able to get ahead of even worse price increases to some degree, but even that I would say realistically don't expect miracles.