360 Costs Half As Much As PS3 By 2006? 102
EGSonikku writes "According to Merrill Lynch, after doing a breakdown of hardware and manufacturing costs., the XBox 360 may end up as little as half the cost as Sony's PlayStation 3 by 2006.
Citing Sony's financial woe's and Microsoft's deep pockets, they predict '...Microsoft's Xbox 360 should emerge as the early winner in the next round of the game console wars.'"
Re:Bleh. (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:The early winner? (Score:3, Interesting)
Will they even ship 2 million units in 2005? or does "a memory card" count as a "hardware unit" too?
Early Adopters: Here to stay. (Score:2, Interesting)
See, kids, there's these people called early adopters and pretty much anything consumer electronics oriented- they buy it ASAP. Why? Because they can, because it's fun, and because not everyone can get one.
Early adopters have been enjoying HDTV, pixel shaders, portable MP3 players, progressive scan DVDs, hell- MICROPROCESSORS and AUTOMOBILES for alot longer than the rest of us.
With consumer electronics enjoying an all time high in popularity, I'd say there's more of these folks than ever.
Early adopters notwithstanding, the scenario in 2006: Abundant 360s with price drop plus Halo 3 (free mulitplayer w/Silver Subscription) vs. scarce, scary-expensive PS3s with an overdone remake of Final Fantasy 7.
This will not be the first time the champ has gotten too big, too lazy and too confused to win.