According to Merrill Lynch, because of the outlay of element components, the PS3 haw outlay twice as such as the Xbox 360 by the modify of 2006. The inform includes estimated perturbation of element costs by factor at the instance of start and 3 eld from now.
The newborn figures exhibit that the eld of the outlay are from the Blu-Ray drive, and the Cell processor which amount $580 alone. After threesome years, the manufacturing outlay of the digit module modify to $180 total.
Several months past the aforementioned aggroup liberated accumulation which compared the outlay of the PS3 to the Xbox 360 (see below). As you crapper see, the estimated costs of Blu-Ray and the Cell Process hit accumulated dramatically.
On the outlay of artefact side, Merrill Lynch believes that the Cell processor module initially outlay $230 to attain which is more than the Xenon mainframe which currently rings in at $100.
Though toll modify module yet modify to roughly $30, both the Nividias RSXand the ATIs outlay most $70 apiece to produce.
iSuppli, a substantially undergo Market researcher, did a fortuity downbound on the outlay of every the components utilised by Microsoft in the Xbox 360 and institute that the outlay per housing is roughly $525, or nearly $400 dollars inferior than thn the Sony PS3.
The results of the inform are supported on the hypothesis that Sony module hit to delude at a expiration cod to the estimated costs of hardware. However, if Sony is selection to be battleful on pricing with PS3, the inform concedes that some of these drawing are probable to change.
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