The cost of production of PlayStation 3 has fallen almost by half.

The cost of production of one PlayStation 3 console, dropped to a mark of 448.73 dollars, writes BusinessWeek, with reference to the research company iSuppli. In doing so, Sony continues to lose money on each sold prefix. Recall that in the North American console with hard drive with 80 gigabytes can be purchased for 399 dollars.
Analysts point out that the cost of PlayStation 3 has declined compared with 2006, when it had just entered the market. Initially, the production of the console costs 840 dollars for a 60-gigabaytnuyu version and 805 dollars for a model with a hard drive at 20 gigabytes. In the retail sale of these stations were worth 599 and 499 dollars respectively. According to experts iSuppli, Sony will continue to further reduce the cost of production of PlayStation 3. This company may start to receive revenue from sales of each game system in 2009.
The original PlayStation 3 was composed of 4048 different parts. For two years this figure has fallen by more than 30 percent. At the moment, to create a console, you only need to 2820 parts. It should be noted that this attachment has lost several USB-ports and slots for memory cards. Also PS3 has lost the support of games for PlayStation 2.
According to iSuppli, the cost of Cell processor has fallen almost by half. In 2006, the creation of a single chip Sony had to spend 89 dollars. In 2007, its price has fallen to 64 dollars, but now the production cost of 46 dollars. The cost of Nvidia graphics chips also fell from 129 dollars in 2006 to 58 dollars this year.
Recall that the PlayStation 3 has been on sale in the territory of Japan and North America in November 2006. The European launch of the console in March 2007. At the moment, PS3 is the third race in a new generation of game systems, after the second-line Xbox 360 and the leading Wii. According to a rough estimate, the world's sold more than 17 million consoles Sony.