{"id":465,"date":"2005-06-30T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T23:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=465"},"modified":"2005-06-30T18:57:43","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T23:57:43","slug":"on-the-playstation3s-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"On the PlayStation3&#039;s Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamesradar.msn.co.uk\/news\/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&#038;articleid=36432&#038;subsectionid=1585\">Sony let the cat out of the bag today, revealing projected production and retail costs of their next video game console, the PlayStation3:<\/a> nearly five hundred dollars to make, sold at four hundred dollars for a loss.<\/p>\n<p>This I like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This puts Microsoft in a very good position. It has a console of comparable ability to PS3 launching first and with a cheaper price tag, with further potential to drop the console&#8217;s price to coincide with PS3&#8217;s (and Halo 3&#8217;s, let&#8217;s not forget) launch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This I find incredibly bizarre:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is potentially a very damaging situation for Sony who, according to yet more startling words of wonder from figurehead Ken Kutaragi, expects customers to &#8220;work more hours&#8221; to afford this luxurious piece of equipment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m salary.  I can work all the hours I want and it makes no difference in the paycheck at the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the PlayStation3 is a year and a half away in the North American market.  Production costs may decrease over the next year.  Sony might not have to price the system at four hundred dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The next round will be interesting, to say the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony let the cat out of the bag today, revealing projected production and retail costs of their next video game console, the PlayStation3: nearly five hundred dollars to make, sold at four hundred dollars for a loss. This I like: This puts Microsoft in a very good position. It has a console of comparable ability<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=465\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the PlayStation3&#039;s Cost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[534,4091],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-playstation","tag-video-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}