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MoHasanie on 11 July 2015

PS3's are sold at a profit and probably make more money per unit sold then each PS4.



    

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rolltide101x on 11 July 2015

Eh, PS3 needs to be (and will be) supported for quite a while yet



rolltide101x on 11 July 2015
MoHasanie said:

PS3's are sold at a profit and probably make more money per unit sold then each PS4.

Do we have clear information showing this? Just Curious



MoHasanie on 11 July 2015
rolltide101x said:
MoHasanie said:

PS3's are sold at a profit and probably make more money per unit sold then each PS4.

Do we have clear information showing this? Just Curious

No. But the PS3 came out almost 9 years ago, so surely the parts required to manufacture a PS3 would be much cheaper now then they used to be. 



    

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rolltide101x on 11 July 2015
MoHasanie said:
rolltide101x said:

Do we have clear information showing this? Just Curious

No. But the PS3 came out almost 9 years ago, so surely the parts required to manufacture a PS3 would be much cheaper now then they used to be. 

Yes, they will be cheaper but that does not mean the PS3 is selling at a pretty good profit. 



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MoHasanie on 11 July 2015
rolltide101x said:
MoHasanie said:

No. But the PS3 came out almost 9 years ago, so surely the parts required to manufacture a PS3 would be much cheaper now then they used to be. 

Yes, they will be cheaper but that does not mean the PS3 is selling at a pretty good profit. 

Maybe... but it's been at the same price for a few years now. 

And if it isn't making a nice profit now (after all these years with no price cuts), then the engineers that made the PS3 were terrible. 



    

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rolltide101x on 11 July 2015
MoHasanie said:
rolltide101x said:

Yes, they will be cheaper but that does not mean the PS3 is selling at a pretty good profit. 

Maybe... but it's been at the same price for a few years now. 

And if it isn't making a nice profit now (after all these years with no price cuts), then the engineers that made the PS3 were terrible. 

It kinda does not work that way..... Eventually you cut as much fat as possible and the price can not go any lower. Under that line of thinking you should be able to produce a SNES for 5$ now



GameAnalyser on 11 July 2015

This proves that Sony is not just working for profit. The general mindset needs a change. The reason why PS3's botched launch help it surpass 360's sales in the long run is that there was a huge library that kept growing as PSN evolved through various stages no matter whatever hiccups it had to go through. PS+ was never forced. I believe PS3 is here to stay for long and get the deserved lifetime sales.



Conina on 11 July 2015
MoHasanie said:
rolltide101x said:

Do we have clear information showing this? Just Curious

No. But the PS3 came out almost 9 years ago, so surely the parts required to manufacture a PS3 would be much cheaper now then they used to be. 

The problem is: the prices of many components won't go down any further after a few years, some components get even more expensive when they leave mass production.

For example DDR2-RAM:

 

The PS3 will probably have a problem with rising Cell-CPU-prices due to production decreases of that chip. With a modular system like PCs you can replace such components with newer + faster components which profit from the mass production (buying a DDR3-board with DDR3-RAM instead of DDR2), but it's not so easy for home consoles... some components can't be replaced without losing compatibility.



tokilamockingbrd on 11 July 2015
Conina said:
tokilamockingbrd said:


It just shows how many people just read the subject. 

It only shows that you don't know or don't care about the forum rules: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=201838&page=1#17

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It is clear and consise if you read the OP.

If you read the entire post (not very long) there is no reason you should come to the wrong conclusion.

Simple things. For one I said GEN 7 not the PS3 in OP, that alone should lead one to believe what I am saying is more than just about hardware. Its about getting people off the old consoles and onto the PS4. Big difference.

Gen 7 is slowing dying, thus Sony can put it out of its misery by getting people still waiting to upgrade a good reason to.

I cant help it you read into it incorrectly but what the subject states is exactly what I mean.



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