Comments on: Sony CEO Confirms PS3 Price Drop

By: Quartecks

Quartecks — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:51:05 +0000

Do your research. Optimistically, Microsoft is just breaking even.

By: v

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:13:41 +0000

microsft dont lose money making consoles. they get like $34 for each. where as sony lose $200

By: Josh B.

Josh B. — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:34:17 +0000

Nintendo only make consoles so they can’t be sustained by other departments profits.

By: Quartecks

Quartecks — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:50:56 +0000

Here’s the thing that makes me think. If Sony and Microsoft can lose approximately $200 per console, and Nintendo now has more money than God, could Nintendo sell the Wii for $50? Of course, that would make game prices like $5, but still the math works even if the logic doesn’t.

By: Zac

Zac — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:32:12 +0000

Make it $20.

By: Quartecks

Quartecks — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:19:06 +0000

How big a price cut? It would have to be about $100 less to be a meaningful cut, but Sony can’t afford that.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:44:36 +0000

Taking advantage of the last 80% will cost an extra 10 million for developers. The PS3 is insanely compicated to work with, powerful, but way too complicated.

And BTW, some of it is non sense, as the PS3 lacks memory these days, the OS takes up over 10% of the main RAM. And if you run stuff in the background, it takes up even more.