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> i highly doubt Sony/MS are making any profit on the hardware right now.

Seriously did you miss that? http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2013/11/19/re...

ANd that's just a third party evaluation, I have no doubt Sony gets way better hardware price deals when ordering millions of parts through their purchasing contracts, so of course they are making some kind of profit on each PS4 sold. They actually want to avoid what put them in the red with the PS3 sales.




From the article:

> IHS iSuppli, having totted up the parts costs, has come up with a total of $372, with an estimated $9 labor cost bringing it to $381 – $18 below the recommended retail price.

So retail price is 399, out of which retailers make how much? 199 ? Tell me again how Sony is making a profit.


Correct, but retailers make nowhere near 200 from a sale, still enough for Sony to not make a profit though.




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