I just don't get why the ps3 is losing money.  From everything i can find it is basically because Blu Ray is so expensive.

Blu Ray has been the market for 3 years now and it has come down in price but why not more.  A standard blu ray player is around 200 but with how fast technology advances why are the blu ray components not much cheaper by now.  How many revisions have we had with processors and hard drive sizes in the last three years now?  How is it that it doesn't cost like 300 or less to make the ps3.  These machines are being made in Asia it's not like they are made here in the us were have minimum and benefits to pay to employees.  Does any know why it is not cheaper to build a video game system.  Blu Ray is great but its not holograms walking in the living room its just bigger storage space for hd content.

Please if anyone knows anything about why it is so expensive let us know.

its the cell processor. that thing is expensive.

If its the cell why is it not being used in more things to get the price down like sony vios and other brand computers 8 cores at 3.2ghz wouldn't that be a pretty sick computer.

they dont make the processor they buy them from ibm, and adding them to more stuff isnt going to make it any cheaper. it will probably increase the price if anything.and sony s]doesnt really care about what goes into their computers.

I heard that sony spent around a billion dollars developing it with toshiba if thats true that seems wierd

lol, i almost posted this in the wrong thread.

it was all three of them that made it.(toshib,sony,and ibm) and i really dont see them spending a billion on it.

but supposedly they are supposed to get a new upgraded processor this year, so they can lower the price

That would be very nice if that would lead to a price drop

yeah sony made with ibm and toshiba.

but toshiba its the manufacturer now or the main the at least.

and everything in the ps3 is expensive.. i think GPU may be the cheapest part.

it have a gloss black case = expensive.

all come with HDD=  expensive.

1 ppu 3.2ghz +7 3.2ghz spu processor. 9 threads. 

XDR 3.2Ghz main ram = VERY expensive.

nvidia RSX = its should be the cheapest to make its should be 45nm by now.

wifi and bluetooth = not expensive but cost extra $$.

and blu ray drive, it diode alone its over 50$

etc.

Toshiba made HD DVD.

Blu-ray is a new tech that lots of companies want to make money on. The companies making the players don't want to price it too cheap so that they don't make much money from it. That's one of the main reasons why Toshiba was the only company making the HD DVD players. They were selling it for so cheap that other companies wouldn't make a profit trying to make hardware themselves.

The same goes for the movies. They want to price it so that they can make considerably more money from it than the DVD version.

sony sold all of its stake it the fabrication/manufacturing of cell