PS3 Production Costs Down 50% In A Year

January 12th, 2008 by James Hyde in Analyst, Articles, Business, Hardware, News, PlayStation 3

Sony’s PS3 has been a lot cheaper to manufacture lately, with the introduction of the 40 GB version, which doesn’t include backwards compatibility chips and has a 65nm version of the Cell chip. All this amounts to 50% in savings for Sony, according to Nikko Citigroup analyst Kota Ezawa, who estimates that it costs Sony $400 to manufacture the PS3, as opposed to $800 before.This year Sony can look for even cheaper console production, as Nvidia will most likely shrink the RSX GPU to 65nm, and with continuing falling hardware prices (including Blu-ray laser diodes), we should be able to see a $299 PS3 for the holiday 2008 season.

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2 Responses to “PS3 Production Costs Down 50% In A Year”

  1. ?x? Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 8:39 am

    yeah it’s cheaper, but at the cost of backwards compatibility? I hope a lot of good PS3 games come out soon then.

  2. Alex Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Me too. I’m waiting to buy a PS3 when a good bundle comes along (with GT5) or when they shrink the RSX to 65nm as well.

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