__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 29 June 2006 08:08 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Larry Qualig ] on Thursday 29 June 2006 00:33 \__
>>
>>> Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>>> Larry Qualig wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Mark Kunt - You are nothing but an ignorant hypocrite. Figures that a
>>>> > hypocrite like you would whine and cry about Kelsey calling you names
>>>> > but you have no problems calling others names. Physician... heal
>>>> > thyself.
>>>> >
>>>> > BTW retard - learn to use Google. Sony will be deliberately selling
>>>> > PS3 at a LOSS to the tune of about $820 million dollars in the first
>>>> > year.
>>>>
>>>> Poor Msg-ID Larry
>>>> How can we help?
>>>
>>> I don't need the help of a homophobe like you. Never have and never
>>> will.
>>
>> Larry, with all due respect, you have sunk to an all-time low. Mark
>> falsely (yet politely and innocently) pointed something out. Response, you
>> told him something along the lines of FOAD. I have a hard time coming to
>> grips with the fact that you are roughly my father's age. Do you also
>> throw fits at your family? And are subject line insults back in fashion,
>> so to speak? Are you trying to punish him?
>>
>
> I'm not wrong, btw - Sony's plan is that the PS3 will be profitable over
> its lifetime, as per standard volume manufacturing. In all volume
> manufacturing, the initial production run loses money because the
> up-front setup costs are very high in deed. After a certain number of
> units are sold, then the run begins to make money. This is why unit
> pricing usually has little to do with cost of manufacture /because/ cost
> of manufacture is /not/ a linear thing (might seem counter intuitive,
> but there we go).
>
> The PS3 is /not/ being sold at a loss, the xbox is. Your troll remains
> both abusive and wrong.
Yes, I read your rebuttal. For completeness, here it is aagin:
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| This price does not represent the cost, it represents the price which
| the manufacturers believe the "early adopters" will be prepared to pay.
| Within two years, the price will be less than half that, within four
| years, it will be 20% of that, declining over the remainder of the
| decade to 10% or less. Consider that DVD players now cost GBP20 here!
|
| Consider a little deeper - what's the difference between a blu-ray
| player and a blu-ray player which is also a games console? Very little
| indeed, if you think about it very hard. Everything is a computer, now.
|
| L>
| L> It is indeed the nature of the console industry; you sell the consoles
| L> at or below cost, and make the profits on selling licenses to game
| L> companies to develop software for them.
| L>
|
| I know Microsoft have done this, but I'm not so sure that Sony have.
| Sony have many years of experience in the incredibly tight-margin consumer
| industry, and know how to get their production costs managed properly.
| Microsoft do not.
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Best wishes,
Roy
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