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All these talks of losing money per hardware masks the fact that, in addition to royalties per game, SONY is getting paid on royalties per blu-ray hardware and software licensed to other manufacturers and publishing companies, respectfully, their primary reason for including blu-ray in the PS3 and pushing it so hard. It may not show up in the numbers from their computer entertainment division, but I'm sure a lot of other divisions are very happy. Same thing with the Cell processor...
All these talks of losing money per hardware masks the fact that, in addition to royalties per game, SONY is getting paid on royalties per blu-ray hardware and software licensed to other manufacturers and publishing companies, respectfully, their primary reason for including blu-ray in the PS3 and pushing it so hard. It may not show up in the numbers from their computer entertainment division, but I'm sure a lot of other divisions are very happy. Same thing with the Cell processor...
Uh, Sony's lost a fortune on Blu-Ray thus far. Not even including that bazillions of dollars they paid to studios to support it over HD-DVD.
The PS3 is not the first console to lose money on sales of the console in order to makeup for it through sales of games.
Sony started that trend with their PS1.
I'm calling BS on those numbers-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106325
As a singular example. I, as an end consumer, can buy a later generation faster OEM drive for less money then Sony spends for bulk? No. They may still be losing $300 per PS3 sold, but the numbers that that particular breakdown is using is a joke.
That was much before the PS1.
The $66.00 they show is reasonable for wholesale large qty.
Everyone always says that, and every time I ask for proof from a reliable source and I never get a response. I think Dari is right.
Proof that they're losing money on blu-ray? The only company I remember paying up was Toshiba.
Those numbers look pretty reasonable to me. You do realize the drive you picked is a full height drive, not a laptop drive. The $66.00 they show is reasonable for wholesale large qty.
Well, this link only references the final deal they made in which they paid $400 million to Warner Bros to go Blu-Ray exclusive. That's the one that put the nail in HD-DVD, but there had been previous deals with other studios as well.
http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/news/hd-video-formats/sony-paid-400-million-for-blu-ray-deal-with-warner.html
I think the Only reason Bluray made it WAS the PS3. The Xbox 360 was suppose to come with HD-DVD right out of the gate but Microsoft was in a hurry to get a jump on Sony and pushed the 360 out with a regular DVD drive since neither HD-DVD or Bluray were ready at the time. I don't think Sony will turn a profit on Blu-ray before digital streaming takes over.
ps3 is still unmoddable to the general public unlike wii or xbox360. i guess the hackers gave up.
I haven't read of any ps3 mods.
Its not that hackers gave up. Why spend time or at least significant time on something when the 360 and wii are much easier to mod.
Sooner or later a mod chip will come around.
Haha, what a weak cop-out. Modders range from professionals to kids with time on their hand. Some do it for money, others for bragging rights (or a combination of both). I doubt that's the reason why there aren't any. I'm sure everyone has tried but SONY managed to make it extremely difficult for modders this time (something the other two console makers would be very interested in).