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Financial report suggests the sheer manufacturing costs of the Playstation3...
The costs associated with the production of the Playstation3 were today dramatically revealed by way of a report in the Toyo Keizai magazine, citing research undertaken by leading financial management and consultant firm, Merrill Lynch.
The report suggests that the manufacturing costs of the PS3 could be as high as 54,000 yen (£271) at the time of launch, which would result in an 11,000 yen (£55) loss per unit sold if SCEI intends to release the next-gen format for the alleged launch price of 44,800 yen (£225). The article goes on to suggest that the core components of the PS3 (CELL, RSX, Blu-ray) could cost close to 11,000 yen (£55) each.
Of more concern for Sony is Merrill Lynchâ??s belief that the Japanese giant will find it hard to absorb the losses during the first year of sale, suggesting that these could rise to 130 billion yen (£652 million) with a further 80 billion yen (£402 million) loss following a year later. Approximate calculations from a loss of £1 billion across the first two years of sale, suggests that SCEI will be looking to shift 20 million PS3 units during this period.
The report concludes with comparisons to the Xbox 360 which will arrive earlier on the market and with a reported $299 (£166) price-tag, with suggestions that Microsoft will drop the price to disrupt the launch of the Playstation3.
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Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:58, Post No: 757
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Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:56, Post No: 756
This post need to die so why don't you all shut the fack up and move on with life. the person who made this post has no life. He could be playing his game getting trophies or achivments. or you can get laid for once in a life time instead of posting stupied as sheet
Added:Sat 24th Oct 2009 22:56, Post No: 756
This post need to die so why don't you all shut the [#@!?] up and move on with life. the person who made this post has no life. He could be playing his game getting trophies or achivments. or you can get laid for once in a life time instead of posting stupied[#@!?][#@!?].
Added:Sun 27th Sep 2009 11:09, Post No: 755
but people have come to accept the rrod its been happening for years now unlike the yellow light of death thats not because of unreliable parts but due to a firmware update, is this an indication that sony had tried to overclock the ps3 and may have had a stable overclock but releasing a firmware update with the overclock included may have caused the trapped gas in the circuit boards.
Added:Sun 27th Sep 2009 03:42, Post No: 754
Actually we can still complain about the RROD because the xbox has a 54 percent failure rate compared to the PS3's 14.7
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Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 18:54, Post No: 753
good point, but who's to say the complaints wont keep coming in? could easily be a majour fault in the system.
but i aint gettin called a fanboy again so ill stick with ur comment =) lets just hope sony can address the problem like microsoft did with the enw motherboards they were using
Added:Mon 21st Sep 2009 01:40, Post No: 752
It's really a low failure rate when compared to Xbox's 45% failure rate in the earlier generations of systems.
A .5% deficiant rate is quite low and seems an acceptable rate for any product. It seems that if Sony can compensate these very few failures with replacement systems ect. then this would be a very small problem.
Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 20:26, Post No: 751
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Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 20:22, Post No: 750
NFS on PS3!Heaven on Earth
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Added:Sat 19th Sep 2009 15:24, Post No: 749
hahaha PS3 has the "YROD" XD hehehe now none of yas can complain about the "RROD" =P
Added:Sat 19th Sep 2009 11:21, Post No: 748
736 i mean, sorry my bad