PS4 costs $381 to build in teardown – only $18 less than retail price

Re:PS4 costs $381 to build in teardown – only $18 less than ... by georgemcbay on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @01:15PM (#6763135)

As other posts have mentioned, Sony is certainly taking a loss. In the long term it is probably worth it for them in this instance since the $400 price ($100 less than Xbox One) really cut the legs off the Xbox One in the wake of the always-connected DRM fiasco (which Microsoft has since backed off on).

There's plenty of places for them to make up the difference if the original intent of increasing percentage of marketshare works (and it seems to be): they get a cut of every game sold, they are likely to sell a lot of PS+ memberships, accessory sales (extra controllers, the PS4 camera) and they will almost certainly get costs down faster than the retail price on the eventual redesigns (PS4 slim or whatever) in a couple years.

On a related note, I've had a PS4 since Friday and the machine is very, very nice.

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Re:PS4 costs $381 to build in teardown – only $18 less than ... by tjdetwiler on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:52PM (#6763926)

The controller is much better than the older PS controllers. Unfortunately the only game I have is Battlefield 4 which likes to crash every 15 minutes and delete my save files (not a PS4-specific issue).

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Re:PS4 costs $381 to build in teardown – only $18 less than ... by georgemcbay on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @04:37PM (#6764677)

I don't have BF4... my gaming on the PS4 has been blissfully crash free thus far. I agree about the controller, the older Playstation DualShock controllers were too small for my hands and would cause cramping after a while.. haven't had that happen with the DualShock 4. I do kinda wish the analog sticks were non-symmetrical the way they are on the Xbox/360/One controllers, but that's a fairly minor detail and I have no other complaints about the controller.

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Re:PS4 costs $381 to build in teardown – only $18 less than ... by saadshamim on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:53PM (#6763942)

I don't think Microsoft is making much money either, the extra cost of xbox one is kinect.

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