New PS3 Hardware Reduces Production Costs For Sony

Just like the PlayStation 2 before it, the PS3 is currently undergoing something of an internal makeover and will be sporting a sexy, new, smaller chip size and a reduction of unnecessary components that, in turn, means that Sony can now manufacturer their PS3 hardware at a cheaper cost. While this may not directly benefit us, it does mean that perhaps Sony will see fit to further reducing the price of all 40GB and 80GB PS3 units.

According to PS3 Fanboy, Sony is now capable of producing PS3 units at $400, as opposed to the previous figure of $800 that Sony was faced with this time last year. The high production costs were partially due to the inclusion of high definition Blu-ray drives that are installed in each and every PS3.

This obviously means that Sony’s margin for profit per PS3 sale was extremely tight at best up until now, as you can imagine. Hopefully, once Sony will be introducing a revised pricing for all PlayStation 3 consoles in the not-so-distant future.

If not for a PS3 price reduction for us, the potential customers, then I would personally love to see more PS3 gaming bundles introduced whereby PS3’s can be brought with, perhaps, one or two top quality games included such as Ratchet and Clank and Heavenly Sword. We’ll just have to wait and see.

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