I think i know why sony made the 160gb...

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Zlejedi on 04 January 2009

Rainbird said:

Kantor said:
Well, it comes with a game too, but still, they're definitely making more profit off the 160GB:

Extra $10 for larger hard drive
$60 for game.

Except 60$ is the retailer price, my guess is that bundling Uncharted in the box only costs them 30-40$ extra.

Then you have the small cost of the HDD and the voucher for PAIN, so my guess is that this SKU is breaking even, maybe making a couble of dollars in profit.

Uncharted is Sony published game - the only cost they have is whatever Naughty dog gets from it and making physical copy.

I doubt if it's more than 10$.

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play_ea on 04 January 2009

so overall do you guys think this was to recoup some of sonys losses on the 80gb SKU

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jkimball on 04 January 2009

sethnintendo said:
Did you mean to say that they could keep charging the same price justifying that there is a bigger hard drive now?

no, that is what they *should* have done and it would have been a good move. but this is sony. They added a 160G drive, which cost THE SAME as an 80g drive right now and upped the price by $100. That means the 160G units are actually profitable. Assuming they sell any. Still quite a few kicking around my Best buy.

Another lost opportunity for Sony to add value....sigh...

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