They are still losing money.

A) they don't sell the systems for 400$ to the retailers

B) Shipment cost are not included in the manufacturing cost

C) Not all system cost the same.

They could be making up the money in Europe/Australia though because they systems are overpriced over here.

Krigon

Point is, they are not losing a straight 250$ per unit made/sold anymore. Big big BIG plus as it contributed to a $2 billion dollar loss for Sony in the last year or so. Sony never really plans to make money off their consoles, it's the games. It's the same business model they used for PS2 and was widely successfull. (as you can see the PS2 still outsells the XBOX360, sadly, due to it's low price and 3000 game count) Everyone thought the PS3 would just bankrupt Sony and flop or get discontinued. But it's the PS2 all over again. And in a few years this puppy will be the best console out there due to it's intense hardware which will definately last through multiple generations of new age gaming, and by then all the developers would have learned to properly code for the cell processor. I'm definately buying one of these by summer time. Hopefully there will be another price drop by then :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Sales_and_production_costs

"Since the system's launch, production costs have been reduced significantly as a result of phasing out the EE chip[65] and falling hardware costs.[66][67] The cost of manufacturing Cell microprocessors has fallen dramatically as a result of moving to the 65nm production process[68][67] and Blu-raydiodes being cheaper to manufacture.[66][69] As of January2008, each unit costs around $400 to manufacture."

They aren't losing $250 per unit any more! They aren't making much either lol but still it's good news. Yay for Sony! Maybe they'll be more in liberty to drop the price of it some more by the end of the year when I plan to buy one of these :)

http://www.amazon.com/PSP-Data-and-Charging-Cable/dp/B000B6NIY8

Dude, starting at 1.99$ and up.

http://www.amazon.com/Intec-G6750-PSP-USB-Cable/dp/B0009DPQYI

And a brand new USB cable (which I assume also charges) is 9$. Your friend is jacking you hardcore.

A) Post in the Killzone: Liberation forum (SPAM)

B) Theres 3 pages ofgames (PLENTY)runningon infrastructure mode so just go and play it.

I belive it was the games. In an interview i saw on the new GoW game with the developers they said that they begged sony for them to unlock it because with 333mhz a lot can be done to make games look good. Sony was reluctant but finaly gave in. In that same vid they showed a before and after of what it looked like. You could see many differences. So its there,but for some reason Sony doesnt like using it for whatever odd reason.

And as far as i know no other game uses it. Its a shame too becuase all that extra power really makes a difference.

AlbertWesker316

It's cuz itll eat more battery power and then complaints of low battery life will swarm in. We'll have to see in March.