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Breaking Down the Dropping Parts Cost for Sony's PS3

Posted by timothy on from the wait-until-it's-all-one-chip dept.

will_die writes "The people at iSuppli have taken apart an October 2008 version of the PlayStation 3 to create a bill of materials, along with providing a comparison to original PS3. The article provides information about the changes Sony has made. One of the big ones was that the hardware has gone from costing $690.23 to the current price of $448.73. This was done using a combination of removing parts (currently 2,820 vs. the original 4,048), cutting the cost of the CPU ($46.46 vs. $64.40), and cutting the cost of the graphics processor to $58.01 from $83.17."

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  1. GPU down from $83.17 to $58.01 by hansamurai · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because the summary probably won't be fixed.

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    Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
  2. Re:Sony needs to... by Sleepy · · Score: 5, Informative

    >Actually I just bought a brand new PS3 from Sony for $250.

    I did the same exact thing last year for $299, got the 40GB model. I bought the PS3 mainly for the BluRay player.

    I did not WANT a credit card out of the deal (even if it is a Chase card), but I read the fine print:
      $100 off a PS3,
        NO INTEREST 12 months..
        AND no yearly card fee?

    I paid off the PS3 early at 10 months, the card is blank, and soon to be canceled. I told others, but no one believed the terms and I know 3 people who paid full price anyways. Wacky..

  3. Re:Sony needs to... by benwaggoner · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't think Microsoft wanted either format to gain critical mass - wide and early adoption is a threat to Microsoft's goal of 'services', including pay per view and digital downloads. Microsoft set HD video back by a year, that's all they got and that's all they wanted.

    I worked on the HD DVD team back then, and we manifestly wanted HD DVD to win, and we invested quite a lot in it. However, we didn't bet the Xbox 360 on it the way Sony bet the PS3 on BD (which appears to have been a good choice from the console business perspective). In the end, Sony was willing pay to whatever cost it took for BD to win.

    Our interest was much more in delivering great video experiences than in which particular substrate thickness of polycarbonate imaged with a blue-violet laser won in the end.

    This is a sample of what I've been working on these days:

    http://smoothhd.com/

    Still pre-beta, but I don't think that optical media will be the hard or the interesting part of HD video delivery much longer.

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    My video compression blog