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360 Costs Half As Much As PS3 By 2006?

Posted by Zonk on from the then-why-am-i-going-to-pay-through-the-nose? dept.

EGSonikku writes "According to Merrill Lynch, after doing a breakdown of hardware and manufacturing costs., the XBox 360 may end up as little as half the cost as Sony's PlayStation 3 by 2006. Citing Sony's financial woe's and Microsoft's deep pockets, they predict '...Microsoft's Xbox 360 should emerge as the early winner in the next round of the game console wars.'"

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  1. Re:Console Wars: The Story so Far by Delphiki · · Score: 2, Informative

    The dev tools will always be at least six months behind then, but more importantly, Microsoft has far and away more experience writing dev tools than Sony and consistently has provided some of the best tools available in the software industry. Plus a huge complaint against the PS2 was how hard it was to develop for and as far as I know, they never fixed that, developers just learned to deal with it. Why would you expect Sony to catch up?

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