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The president of SCEA NA was on CNBC earlier this week. Did they ever grill him on the price cut. He claims the machine has gotten cheaper to manufacture and that is why they dropped the price.
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I don't think it's just because of manufacturing, although that could be part of it. The same press release that announced the price drop also announced that they will be releasing an 80GB model with Motorsport pack-in at the old $600 price. They're probably not paying much more (and might be paying less; either way the decision was probably affected more by manufacturing volume than by the desire to provide a bigger drive) for 80GB than they did for 60GB, and a pack-in doesn't actually cost that much, so I think this is Sony's attempt at providing something that looks like a much better deal for consumers but doesn't actually cost Sony much if anything at all. Given what happened to the 20GB model (weak availability followed by no availability and then Sony finally announcing that it's discontinued), I just hope that this isn't the death knell for the 60GB model. |
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