Chris Kohler
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Tretton: PS3 Difficult to Cost-Reduce

SCEA president Jack Tretton talked to Game Informer about the PS3 launch in their recent issue, and as Joystiq points out today, he says that it’ll be difficult to get the costs of PlayStation 3 down: The reason for the shallower pricing curve? According to Tretton, the increased investment in R & D and hardware […]

Pixeltretton_2SCEA president Jack Tretton talked to Game Informer about the PS3 launch in their recent issue, and as Joystiq points out today, he says that it'll be difficult to get the costs of PlayStation 3 down:

The reason for the shallower pricing curve? According to Tretton, the increased investment in R & D and hardware makes the system "a lot more difficult to cost reduce" than the PS2. "There's a heck of a lot more under the hood and it costs us more money to make it," Tretton told Game Informer.

Although Tretton tells the mag that the price of PS3 won't drop as quickly as PS2's did, I don't really believe that. PlayStation 2 didn't have much in the way of competition, but PS3 is up against a $400 Xbox 360 -- which Microsoft built to be easily cost-reducable.

Tretton on PS3's costs [Joystiq]