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xbox had issues initally as well

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Originally posted by squall_leonhart69r
xbox had issues initally as well

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Not really, the only issue that they had is 1 in 10 000 of the power cables made before october 2003 may have been a bit dangerous, so they sent out millions of free power cables...

no

there was issues with some of the harddisks and onboard IDE controllers

there was also a problem with the dvd drive motor burning out

and there was a high risk of the custom Geforce 3 burning out

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Originally posted by squall_leonhart69r
eh Race

add up the cost of the RSX processor and the Cell chip

if the rsx is based off the G70GL then it'll be around that price

heck the 6800s are over 1000 here

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Competitive pricing?

"loss leader" is a very common marketing technique.
Say they sold the PS3 for a $500 loss.
Then the people would buy extra things for the console, like games, controllers, live service subscriptions, memory cards, wifi adapters, eye toys etc...

And these have a high profit margin. So they make the money back on that easily.

For a real life example of this. Game Cube retailed at a huge loss, and they still made a profit. Mobile phone networks do it, giving free phones with contracts. Printer companies do it. There is a Lexmark printer where the ink cartridge's RRP is more than the printers' RRP. So its cheaper to buy a new printer and use the free cartridge than it is to buy a new cartidge.

aye you have a point there, but its not just Sony thats after a profit here, and nvidia don't take to loss leader sales well

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Originally posted by squall_leonhart69r
heck the 6800s are over 1000 here

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Eh?!

$770 for a 6800GT, Gainward too and that is the AGP version!

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Originally posted by squall_leonhart69r
local gameshop dude sez it'll retail at $1700 australian

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He can jump off a cliff.

Stop spreading crap

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Originally posted by Chris Boulton
$770 for a 6800GT, Gainward too and that is the AGP version!

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Actually, that does sound about right.