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drkohler on 14 November 2008
nightsurge said:
Bboid said:

The Xbox 360 has been making a profit per console sold of about $26 since 2006.  The profit may have decreased with price cuts, but I assure you, they are not losing as much as you say, if any at all.

Manufacturing costs for a PS3 are currently around $350, manufacturing costs for an XBox360 are around $250-$280.

>The following is the original teardown analysis when the PS3 launched. http://i.cmpnet.com/eetimes/eedesign/2006/chart1_111607.gif (2006)>

This breakdown was/is incorrect in many places and mirrors production costs, not manufacturing costs.



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coolestguyever on 14 November 2008
Xen said:
Bboid said:

When the console first released, the 60gb version was roughly $750-850 to produce, depending on what price they were paying for bulk parts.

Now with the cheaper parts, blu-ray diodes being far cheaper they are almost close to breaking even on the $399 pricepoint. (about $475-525 to produce now)

 

By far the largest cost of the system at launch was the blu-ray diodes and they have plummeted in price since then.

Yep, this. Also evidenced by drops in BR players price.

The next most expensive component was the Cell I think. Now that Sony is working on a 45nm Cell, due '09, expect them breaking even, and lowering their price Q2 '09.

 

 

 I hope your right that they will be able to make the 45nm cell. The sooner they start making money off the consoles the sooner we may get a price drop the sooner PS3 starts to outsell 360.