The Mullinator
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This is from Merril Lynch the investment firm. They have decided that the PS3 will cost $900 to make initially, they don't give an estimate for how much Sony will sell it for however so Sony could make it the same price as the Xbox and take a massive loss on each system sold.
They also believe that the release date may slip into 2007 so that the costs of components like the Blu-ray drive won't be so expensive to produce and bring the manufacturing costs down.
Keep in mind nothing is official here but I would trust Merril Lynch for the estimates on hardware cost above anything other than Sony itself.
http://rsch1.ml.com/9093/24013/ds/276873_0.PDF
My source: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/18/playstation-3-estimated-to-cost-900-per-unit/#comments
They also believe that the release date may slip into 2007 so that the costs of components like the Blu-ray drive won't be so expensive to produce and bring the manufacturing costs down.
Keep in mind nothing is official here but I would trust Merril Lynch for the estimates on hardware cost above anything other than Sony itself.
http://rsch1.ml.com/9093/24013/ds/276873_0.PDF
My source: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/18/playstation-3-estimated-to-cost-900-per-unit/#comments