Sony will win $ 18 each PlayStation 4 - The País.com (Spain)

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Sony will not lose money with your new Playstation 4. At least that is deducted from iSuppli analysis of its components. The manufacturing and assembly costs $ 381 and the machine sold 399 (399 euros in Spain).

consoles business is based on the sale of games and not the machine, yet Sony has succeeded for the first time a console

manufacture it cost him less than their initial retail price. The achievement made with the PS4, which goes on sale in Spain and Latin American countries on the 29th, albeit only notional profit $ 18 (of course account for marketing and distribution costs) is a milestone.

When in 2006 Sony released the PlayStation 3, according to the same study by iSuppli, the cost of production was $ 805, $ 206 more than its retail price. Three years later managed to reduce the production cost less than half ($ 336), but also lowered its price ($ 299) so your machine losses were reduced to $ 37.

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case is also the machines Microsoft (Xbox) and Nintendo (Wii). The exclusive games for each device are popular appeal for fans to purchase a console and then type titles are acquiring it.