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Sony: Manufacturing costs for PS4 will be much cheaper than PS3

article published on 11 May, 2013

During their most recent earnings conference call, Sony CFO Masaru Kato confirmed that unlike the PS3, the PS4 will not be a black hole of profits at launch. The PS3 had an expensive and proprietary Cell processor and included a high-end early model Blu-ray drive before Blu-rays were mainstream. "Unlike PS3, we are not planning a major loss to be incurred with the launch of PS4," said ... [ read the full article ]

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Mysttic
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_ 		11. May 2013 @ 16:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
In this regard I still going to assume that the launch price would be $500 still.
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A5J4DX
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_ 		11. May 2013 @ 19:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Mysttic:
 In this regard I still going to assume that the launch price would be $500 still.
yeah lol
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dEwMe
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_ 		13. May 2013 @ 13:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I won't buy one until it's cracked wide open and sub $300.
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Just my $0.02,

dEwMe
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hearme0
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_ 		13. May 2013 @ 15:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
And I'm sure that the fact that nothing is ground-breaking about this new PS4 helps keep the price constant. Games aren't any different and the only this this lame excuse for a 'new release' has different is the 'sharing' crap that no one will use.

Shame on Sony for using that proprietary cell proc back in the day too!!!!!!!!!!!!
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