Playstations and Blu-Ray players

[andrewducker]

Let's assume that the PS3 will launch for about the same price as the XBox 360 (and anything else would be suicide) at around $450.

And let's also assume that the prices floating around for Blu-Ray players is reasonable accurate and that they'll be starting at $600.

Now, as the PS3 will have a Blu-Ray player built in, who the hell is going to go into competition with Sony by releasing their own player, when they will be beaten so badly on price?

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

I was working on playstation.com when the PS2 launched (oh, happy days of free beer and japanese takeaways before the last tube), and yes, the actual cost of the bits in a PS2 were well more than they sold the whole thing for.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Thats interesting: I'd always wondered how much Sony were losing on the PS2 and for how long. Any ideas? I seem to remember the Japanese release price being *much* higher than the US one but I'm guessing that after couple of years they were able to turn a tidy profit on each unit sold. After all, Nintendo and Microsoft dropped their hardware prices sooner than Sony did...