Onmi said:
Cheeze_Pavilion said:
Playbahnosh said:
Huh. So, basically this is "because we fucking can" model of pricing? Thats nice. No wonder I don't buy Sony stuff anymore...
It's "because this is the price we think the market will bear" model of pricing which...is what everyone does. Including Sony when you could get a PS3 for less than it cost them to make.
Unfortunately, Sony has turned into the worst company ever PR-wise.
Until someone does an estimate on how much a PS3 costs to mke can we all stop referring to price for it. I mean I don't mind but I wanna be absolutly sure.
Speaking of the Go! hands up if you got a PSP. okay all of you that did you are not the target market. The target market is those who do not have PSPs. As for me I suggest if you don't have one you pick up a 3000 or 2000 which they still sell.
I know it's not a new thing, this "because I say so" school of pricing, the "let's rip off everyone as hard as we can, before they realize they've been virtually mugged". Of course, on release day
everything costs a
lot more than it costs to actually manufacture the stuff, it's the simple process of finding the maximum price the consumer is
willing to pay for something, regardless of manufacturing and material costs.
I was working in an assembly firm for an undisclosed company, where we put together mid-end SPARC servers for Fujitsu and Sun. My non-disclosure contract doesn't allow me to say much, but you should've seen the quality of the parts we had to work with. The chassis and other parts all came from [the other side of the globe], and a good percent of them either got damaged en-route or were packaged pre-wrecked. Another good percent broke during assembly, not because the workers were clumsy, but because the parts were of shitty quality. The plastics usually broke or got scratched, the aluminum parts as the chassis bent under the smallest stress, and a good many of the mechanical parts, such as latches and levers to remove modules broke. Not to mention the actual computer components like motherboards, DIMMs or DAT drives. We had the pleasure of filtering out the crap after assembly, and I gotta tell you, nearly half of the servers had somekinda problem during testing. It was a nightmare working with all those defective stuff. I don't really know, but I think at least 20-30% of the parts were defective. The biggest joke is, the price. These are mid-range servers, they have the performance of ten to twenty high-end PCs combined (if I'm not mistaken), and usually used for databases and webservers. The
entry level model, that has only the most crucial components installed, costs around $15,000! A fully loaded server with all the top-grade components and extra stuff, that costs around $160,000. Yes, Onehundredandsixtythousand dollars. It's the same machine as the 15K one, the only difference is the top one has more RAM, processors and card slots. It's not ten times the base model.
Judging by the quality and tech level of the materials used, in my estimate it should cost about $4000 to manufacture the top-grade server with everything in it, maybe less, so they essentially working with a 4000% profit margin here.
I'm not saying they shouldn't do it, I'm mean they
should rob blind everyone who dares to buys that crap, because they have to turn in more and more profit every fiscal year. I'm saying this is how economy works, everybody knows that, only nobody says is out loud.
Now Sony said it out loud, that the price of everything they sell (and not just them) is 20% material cost, 20% manufacturing, 10% other and
50% bullshit. I wonder how the other companies will react to this...
