Sony hate thread

[moocow]

Well, according to sony themselves, they aren't going to subsidize it, make it a loss leader, or sell it at any appreciable loss whatsoever. When you look at the current BoM, just adding the retail cut alone would put it over $1,400 break-even, but that doesn't include things like the cost of R&D, marketing, distribution, shipping, etc. And, this also assumes no component of it goes up in price in the next 18 months. Multiple components are expected to further double in price by then. I genuinely think even $1,500 is optimistic to the point of almost being willfully ignorant, $1,500 is what they'd put it out for NOW if they were ok taking a loss of somewhere in the ballpark of $100-200. $1,200 is what they'd put it out for if RAM prices crash between now and November 2027.

Amazingly kind of them to commit such an unforced error and hand Microsoft, Nintendo and even Valve a shot at embarrassing them by releasing a console at under $1,500 (Valve's already announced $1k for the GabeCube™).

 

[Markorian]

Amazingly kind of them to commit such an unforced error and hand Microsoft, Nintendo and even Valve a shot at embarrassing them by releasing a console at under $1,500 (Valve's already announced $1k for the GabeCube™).

While I wish xbox would team up with valve to spitroast the ps6, unfortunately, I can't see the next xbox being more than $100 cheaper than the ps6, if at all, and the gabecube is unfortunately despite its price about on par with a switch 2. You could say they're giving nintendo a pretty big opportunity, but I doubt they'd really do much to pounce on it, they'll just keep doing their own thing while selling a system 3x cheaper that's still getting a lot of the same games because there's a smaller gap between the switch 2's specs and the leaked ps6's specs than there was a gap between the switch 1 and ps5, while games will still continue coming to the ps5 for even longer than they continued releasing for the ps4, making porting them to the switch 2 borderline trivial, assuming the optimization isn't being handled by jeets.