John - You really think Sony was losing 700 per console sold?

Good points. But primarily, Blu-ray lens are also dirt cheap to them now.

@johnsoba

I know.

If we never did anything like this though we wouldn't have anything to talk about and at least in the end one group gets to have a ton of fun with a nice big "Told ya so".

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Euphoria14

You could go play games.

If i remember right did they not say in may/april they were still losing 20-30 bucks each ps3 sold? it was all over the boards 

im lazy so this is the best i could do

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/sony-ps3-playstation-cost-price,news-3947.html

to go from that to major profit right now would seem odd 

ugh, 1200 is the value today if the console cost $1000 then, the $600 from 2006 would be worth more than $600 today as well. You obviously don't understand exchange rates. Are you saying exchange rates haven't effected the costs even though Sony has cited it numerous times as the reason for their struggle?

Pfft... says the guy in the same forum thread as me.

actually scratch that, the entire Japanese economy has cited it as a huge reason for their struggles.

Stringer also said after the Activision "threat" that if they dropped the PS3 price they would be losing money on each console sold. Gave the impression that they were possibly already profiting.

Then we also could think that the $20-30 lost per console was based on the current models costs. This new number could be based on Slim cost.

We don't know really but it is fun to try and pick it apart of hopefully in the end find out if we are right.

i wouldnt buy a ps3 even if it got a 200 dollar price cut