Is the PlayStation 3 arriving with an even bigger delay?

Sony would face too much loss if it launches its new console this year.

"Due to the competition's low prices, Sony would not be able to sell the new PlayStation for more than 400-500 dollars," reported Hitoshi Kuriyama, a Japanese employee of the Merrill Lynch research company. "There would also be quite a few of the new consoles due to production problems," he added.

This in itself can be called a pretty serious problem, but it seems that applying tons of new technology was not the right decision for Sony either. The development of the central unit of the gaming machine has consumed a lot of money, and in addition, production is stagnating. It is estimated that only one such unit could cost the reputable manufacturer $ 230. To top it all off would be a $ 350 Blu-ray drive, and then there was no talk of the graphics chip - $ 70 - as well as memory and other components.

Overall, it would cost about $ 3 to make a PS900, and even Sony would not be able to afford the resulting loss of about 50 percent. Their only option is to further delay the look, hoping that at least some of the problems will be solved and they will still be able to compete in a market where, at best, they can count on about 12 and a half million consoles sold.

In a previous piece of news, we reported in detail that Microsoft’s Xbox 360, according to preliminary analyzes, will cost the manufacturer about $ 525, which is still a fairly acceptable level of loss at a consumer price of $ 399. However, since then, some believe that this $ 525 is much closer to 700 than we would have guessed. While, of course, in the millions, the difference between Microsoft’s $ 700 and Sony’s $ 900 is huge, it’s still interesting that the PlayStation maker doesn’t want to show that its product is ready by introducing at least a small amount. There could easily be a very simple reason for this: they are far from being on the verge of release. So the console war is getting more and more exciting: Sony’s huge advantage accumulated over many years, support for game developers, exclusive licenses is pretty slowly being consumed by the months, so when the new console finally arrives, a huge battle is expected between the two manufacturers ’solution.