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mario64 on 21 January 2010

@Blade : you know console manufacturers earn money with peripherals and software, right ?

Your model works better for Xbox 1, it sold very few software and lost bilions before dying.



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dirkd2323 on 21 January 2010

Good Deal, there going in the right direction



letsdance on 21 January 2010
NJ5 said:
letsdance said:
NJ5 said:
letsdance said:
I also heard isupply goes off what the part goes for (or would go for if it were availble) at retail. So basically doesnt take into consideration bulk discounts.

No way... where can you buy 512 MB of memory for $10 ? Or a Blu-ray drive for $66 ?

 


newegg. and that obviously is not bulk.

The Blu-Ray drive, apparently yeah (though it's like the cheapest one). But the memory and especially the hard drive, those prices seem lower than retail (and newegg confirms).

This doesn't really give me a lot of confidence on iSuppli's data...

 


Id assume itd be 40 dollars for the mem... considering in the "quantity" column there is a 4,



ocean-1984 on 21 January 2010

299.00 EUR = 421.079 USD They dont loose money in euro countrys.
I fill like I payed a bit more then the rest of world...



mario64 on 21 January 2010

@NJ5 : Sony doesn't get retail prices at all, they get huge rebates from manufacturers since they buy millions of similar components.



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Kasz216 on 21 January 2010
mario64 said:
Wow, there goes the 2009 Sony doom thread template : "But PS3 is losing too much money"

You know... unless you pay attention to the fact that Isuppli has ALWAYS undersold the cost of a PS3, since they never matched up with what the Sony execs were saying before.

 



NoCtiS_NoX on 21 January 2010

It has begun. I want more popcorn now. lol.

OT: I wish that Isuppli is right this time. Making profit is now very very near. Woot!



Kasz216 on 21 January 2010
ocean-1984 said:
299.00 EUR = 421.079 USD They dont loose money in euro countrys.
I fill like I payed a bit more then the rest of world...

VAT is an inclusive tax.

The US pays 299.00 BEFORE taxes.

So, you pay more... but blame your government.  Not Sony.



NJ5 on 21 January 2010
letsdance said:
NJ5 said:
letsdance said:
NJ5 said:
letsdance said:
I also heard isupply goes off what the part goes for (or would go for if it were availble) at retail. So basically doesnt take into consideration bulk discounts.

No way... where can you buy 512 MB of memory for $10 ? Or a Blu-ray drive for $66 ?

 


newegg. and that obviously is not bulk.

The Blu-Ray drive, apparently yeah (though it's like the cheapest one). But the memory and especially the hard drive, those prices seem lower than retail (and newegg confirms).

This doesn't really give me a lot of confidence on iSuppli's data...

 


Id assume itd be 40 dollars for the mem... considering in the "quantity" column there is a 4,

 

In that case it looks too expensive. Lol. And the hard drive looks too cheap.

Anyway, it seems way too weird to use retail prices to calculate a manufacturing cost, so I find it hard to believe.

 



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letsdance on 21 January 2010
Kasz216 said:
mario64 said:
Wow, there goes the 2009 Sony doom thread template : "But PS3 is losing too much money"

You know... unless you pay attention to the fact that Isuppli has ALWAYS undersold the cost of a PS3, since they never matched up with what the Sony execs were saying before.

 


lies. Sony CFO said 10% when isupply said 440(more than 10%).