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Since PS4 and XBONE are sold for profit (even small), can it be good for ps4 to be jailbraked since more people would buy it (for the ~free games) ?
by ddorian43 13y ago
Since PS4 and XBONE are sold for profit (even small), can it be good for ps4 to be jailbraked since more people would buy it (for the ~free games) ?
- dodyg 13y agoIn Indonesia very few people buy a game. Egypt is similar.
- tehwebguy 13y agoProfit isn't the right word. Third parties are just estimating that the sum of the parts cost less than the retail price.
- joosters 13y agoThey aren't profit-making AFAIK. At least, not the bare console packages.
- CrazedGeek 13y agoThe PS4 is pretty darn close: cost of parts and assembly is $381 and it's being sold for $400. http://allthingsd.com/20131119/teardown-shows-sonys-playstation-4-costs-381-to-build/ http://allthingsd.com/20131119/teardown-shows-sonys-playstat...
- petermonsson 13y agoAssuming that the store sells it for no profit.
- joosters 13y agoThat's pretty much confirmation that it is sold at a loss. $381 includes parts + assembly. What about packaging, transport costs, retailer margin, marketing and so on? Those missing costs don't fit into the $18 gap, I assure you!
- ekianjo 13y agoSony gets rebate on millions of parts, dont worry. You dont know what they really pay. And even Sony mentioned they are veru close to selling at cost.
- CrazedGeek 13y agoYeah, but they're probably not a ridiculous amount higher. Thus the "close".
- PeterisP 13y agoNope, the components mentioned (distribution, retail margin, marketing) are at least 20% of the total cost, think close to $100 for the costs - if your parts (including volume rebates) are near the retail price, then it's not "close", it means taking a serious loss.
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- emiljbs 13y agoSony said that they sell at a loss of $60
- tehwebguy 13y ago$400 retail, Best Buy isn't paying Sony $400 net
- erikb 13y agoThey make profits with licensing app developers to develop stuff for their system. The console itself makes not much money. (don't have a proof, but I work for an IT company that pretty much does the same in a B2B/B2A market)
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- eonil 13y agoNope. Wrong. That's something like a man who is eating his own flesh. Without content (including applications), a platform is useless. If a platform cannot defend their developers, the platform should die. (this is actually happening on PC and Android) So, no SANE platform holder even think to make profit by SACRIFICING content developers for their platform. JAILBREAKING for FREE games? Because you don't need to jailbreak for free stuffs from first, that exactly means just PIRACY (=unlicensed copy = no respect to right), nothing else. Well, jailbreaking for something else, that maybe not bad, but for piracy? No. Because piracy is definitely the most effective way to kill the content and the platform. Pirating people just killing what they want by killing support for developers. So they're all idiots. There's no chance of any excuse. From the perspective of content developers, I have to say that you're idiot, and only even mentioning or thinking of that idea is disgusting and deserve to get insulted. If you have ever developed any content, you can't even imagine this at all.
- ddorian43 13y ago*an idiot I didn't say that the platform holder would ease piracy/jailbraking. And i know they get most of their $$$ from developers and game sales. Since people in many countries don't give a fuck about developers/platform they would buy the jailbraked console and only download or buy pirated games. Since from reading comments they aren't sold for profit this wouldn't work.