Quote:
Originally Posted by Lebron
MS is doing the same thing early this year with the 360, as well. Pretty much to sum it up, it will cost them less to make and it will run more efficient, so a price drop could be more likely. MS is lowering their price this year, and Nintendo is already cheap compared to the other 2, but maybe they could lower it to $199, iono, depends if they keep selling strong at their current price. So I still think PS3 could have a price drop this year too in order to be competitive--well they need one.
real question is if they do, how much we talking about? $25? $50? $100?
|
Sony is lowering production costs. Nothing here said that it's gonna affect the price of the console, as the price is already below production costs. Sony probably isn't planning to make losses on their console for a long time. Just because Microsoft pulled it of with the older Xbox doesn't mean Sony will do the same. Microsoft also sold the 360 with losses in the beginning, but they also improved their production methods, but also didn't drop the price of it for each change. Besides how much cheaper is the production for each Cell CPU going to be? My guess is $10 max. But for Sony that is a huge improvement. For one it isn't much. But when you're looking at the amount of consoles Sony makes, it saves a shitload of money.