Buzz Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 SSD is about 1.5$ per GB, Vita card is more than 3$ per GB, and it gets worse for cheaper cards (5$/GB for 4GB card) Maybe it's faster than SSD Sony really did pull a fast one on us :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthVader Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 are the O and X buttons reversed on Jap version ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCore Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 are the O and X buttons reversed on Jap version ? Obviously, but dunno if its hard-coded in the firmware (like PS3/PSP) or if you can change it in settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achilles Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 SSD is about 1.5$ per GB, Vita card is more than 3$ per GB, and it gets worse for cheaper cards (5$/GB for 4GB card) Haha you mean worse for lower capacity cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playstationdude Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Obviously, but dunno if its hard-coded in the firmware (like PS3/PSP) or if you can change it in settings. Although I never had any trouble due to it on the ps3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCore Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 They probably think its a printing mistake asking them to charge 1k+ for 4GB card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avkash Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullu Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Barely a month to launch and Sony India have no idea yet on how to price their memory cards. are we supposed to be surprised ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 UBM's VP of business intelligence, Jeffrey Brown, tells us that the total bill of materials for the 3G-enabled version of the system comes in at an estimated $159.10 - that's around £102.90. That figure breaks down as follows: Display and touchscreens: $50 Battery: $3.60 Cameras: $3.50 Wi-Fi/BT/GPS: $3.50 NAND: $6.00 SDRAM: $9.25 Processor: $16.00 BB+XCR: $16.25 Non-electronic: $11.00 Other: $30.00 Supporting materials: $10.00 Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avkash Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 this plus making and packing and storage and transport, woah, a lot of cost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnackChap Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 this plus making and packing and storage and transport, woah, a lot of cost all that + retailers margin and it still shouldnt be over 225$ tops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 it's just bill of material, labour and manufacturing cost is not included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Right Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 what about cost of RnD? People work for free at UBM or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCore Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 R&D is probably a bigger factor than all of the above, but the thing about R&D is that it stops being a factor when your final product is ready. You can retrofit the amount to the number of Vitas sold, but it'll keep reducing with each new purchase. For eg if they've spent $100M on R&D then the very first Vita they sell should actually costs just over $100M, after 5M Vitas its 20$ per HW and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeehunter Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 ^^ Inshort , price cut not coming anytime soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
achilles Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 all that + retailers margin and it still shouldnt be over 225$ tops. ? R&D, special assembly lines which are Vita specific, actual assembly, production, packaging, transport, dist. margin, retailer margins, marketing & profit. I've removed a couple of steps in between but the whole chain adds a pretty big chunk though BOM should be the biggest chunk. If only BOM was considered we'd be getting games for 100 bucks tops. The cost is to be distributed amongst the number of Vitas they expect to sell in total and the first year, hence the initial price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avkash Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 and IGN thinks that as the materials cost $160 so Sony is making a profit of $90 on each Wi-Fi model sold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullu Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 They are IGN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avkash Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 Yeah Sent from my Galaxy S2 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted January 21, 2012 Report Share Posted January 21, 2012 They are IGN cant have IGNorant without IGN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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