Cheap (But Not Used/Pre-Owned) Nintendo DS Lite

[Rackhir]

With the exception of Nintendo, console manufacturers already lose money on selling consoles. They can hardly offer any discounts to the retailers.

Actually, this is largely a myth. Though, it is more true for the next gen consoles (360/PS3).

http://www.actsofgord.com/Proclamations/chapter02.html

Terrific web site by the way. VERY Funny to read.

 

[trancejeremy]

Well, yeah, obviously after manufacturing costs go down and late in the console's life, they do make money off them (except the original Xbox, I believe, due to how MS licensed the technology from Nvidia), but I was meaning new consoles, not old ones.

 

[Rackhir]

Well, yeah, obviously after manufacturing costs go down and late in the console's life, they do make money off them (except the original Xbox, I believe, due to how MS licensed the technology from Nvidia), but I was meaning new consoles, not old ones.

You're missing the point of the article. Most of them are not being sold at a loss, new or old, early or late in the product cycle. The whole point of revisions like the PSOne or the slimline PSTwo is to minimize production costs and you can be dammed sure that Sony didn't do it so they'd be loosing money on them. I'm personally dubious as to exactly how much money if any Sony will actually be loosing on the PS3. If they are loosing any money, I'm sure it's not a lot.