Sony losing about €35 on each PS3

May 17, 2009 by Leroy Ketelaars  
Filed under News

Sony CFO Nobuyuki Oneda noted recently that the PS3′s cost is still 10 percent higher than the system’s price, reports Andriasang.com. With the console’s price differences in each region, if Oneda is talking about Japan, that would be approximately ¥4,000 (€35,- $42,-). In North America the same $40 loss would also hold true. So the chanses are most likely Europe wont be any different.

As bad as losing money on each console manufactured sounds, it used to be worse. Just a year ago the estimate was that Sony was losing over $100 per system. Losing a couple Jacksons (four Hideyo’s in Japan) per console isn’t great, but it appears that Sony’s costs and sales on the console are slowly finding equilibrium. Unless, of course, there’s another $100 price drop in the PS3′s near future.

source: Joystiq

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