Ah. Gotcha.

 

How is he going to use the 150 GC at Jellyfish?

 

The $150 is as if I would be using it at BB for other stuff.
Drew,

Believe me...I already thought about JF.com :hs:

And if this never came along that is how I would have gotten it anyhow. :yes:

 

OH. We established that the GC is like cash in his pocket. (see post 19)

One of the options eliminated above was buying the console, in store, @ BestBuy. Because of tax and limitations on purchase amount, he's not getting the best bang for his buck.

 

Yeah, I disagree with that philosophy, but whatever.

 

Due to the removal of various components from the PS3's innards, coupled with smaller chip size, Sony has been able to cut the production cost of the PS3 by half since last year. Each console can now be produced at $400 a unit, rather than the $800 it was costing for each PS3 around November 2006. It's not clear whether this is the case for both the 40GB and the 80GB models, but it seems fair to assume that the 40GB is now selling at cost.

What does this mean for consumers? More wiggle room with regards to pricing. We wouldn't at all be surprised to see a drop in price sometime this year. Don't expect it to come soon though. Sony are still riding a bit of a wave with regards to PS3 sales and with a number of high profile games coming out in the next few months, that can only improve.

 

Sony needs to learn what economies of scale are.

 

Source?

 

It's all point-of-view.

The difference between the out-of-pocket costs is $110. In order to grab the lowest OOP, he needs to fork over all of his gift cards ($150).

If he's going to use the gift cards anyways, that's $40 ($110 cash vs $150 card) lost for nothing.

 

I think the RB philosophy is that I have to spend $110 now whereas with the GC's I don't have to spend that.

But what's the point of owning a system and not getting to use it? Need some games for it.

Also, I think you can use those 10-12% coupons BB always has for games.