$43 for a 20gb SATA notebook drive? Sony needs to find some new suppliers that don't charge retail prices for components. :)

It's still very expansive for $499, the price should $300 consider the low memory for 20GB no worth to buy

Anyone that says a console is like a supercomputer needs to be punched in the neck for being a retard.

Why spend all that crazy money on PS3, XBoX360 is King. Check the link; http://uk.media.xbox360.ign.com/articles/617/617951/imgs_1.h ml

PS3 is oldie technology "not include blue ray",they should release in 2005.Sony make very slow move and this are become disaster.People now talking about Dx10 and the PS3 will look like PS1.

XBoX360 is King? or it's only a shit =>

>>>PS3 is oldie technology "not include blue ray",they should release in 2005.Sony make very slow move and this are become disaster.People now talking about Dx10 and the PS3 will look like PS1.

Microsoft's failure of the whole XB line is introducing his low efficiency API DX, which is well known for wasting lots bandwidth! See why OGL dominated professional 3D application and DX can't do anything better than OGL2 even with his 10th ver! Just like Windows vs UNIX, m$ is always lagging behind!

http://www.pricewatch.com/video_cards/geforce_7900_gs_256m .htm shows me able to buy a 7900 (AKA RSX) with 256 megabytes for under $200 while this list shows Sony spending $130 for the RSX without memory.

Yeah, Sony is messing up right now, but I'm sure they could negotiate a better deal than $130 for nvidia's previous generation video card.

$59 for the simple IO bridge controller when the entire PS2 is only $27?

I bet it is expensive, but I bet the retail of the expensive unit is exactly the cost to build.

What a load of crap this is. This is supposed to be a breakdown of the MANUFACTURING costs. I see a number of items on this list that are produced by Sony. Any ICs listed cost pennies to make in quantity. Oh, did anyone actually believe that DVD players actually cost hundreds of dollars to manufacture when they first hit the market? No, the real cost in these items is R&D, which third party manufacturers try to recover with an inflated price. Now that the demand is low, such items as DVD players are on the market at a price close to manufacturing cost.

So, let's assume that the third party costs are the same as listed. The real cost breakdown for the 20gb model looks a little more like this:
Third party components:
Nvidia, IBM and others: $309.00
Sony: ~$100.00 (and I'm generous with this)

Total cost: $409.00

Looks to me like a $90.00 profit.