Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Aug 2009 23:24 UTC, submitted by John Mills
As everybody had been more or less anticipating for months now, Sony has released the Playstation 3 Slim, a much smaller, lighter, and more energy-efficient variant of the regular Playstation 3. There's good news for people who held out on the PS3 because it was too expensive, and there's bad news for those of us who liked the idea of running Linux on the PS3.
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Member since:2005-07-06
the rest must be Sony's EuroRipoff
An aspect that most people forget in these sort of debates is that employment costs are much higher in Europe. Not only do minimum (or close to) wage workers get paid more, companies have higher employer taxes and related fees compared to the US. Thus every link in the local supply chain, has to take slightly higher margins to cover theses costs and all that adds up quite quickly. So I wouldn't be so quick to simply blame Sony. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony makes basically the same profits no matter where the PS3 is sold
Member since:2006-01-18
This maybe true for Britain (well at least until the pound went down the gutters), but on the average it is not really true. If you count in that on the average the salary is higher for the same jobs in the US than it is on continental Europe than things start to even out.
I personally think that for an employer the employment costs are not too different between the US and western Europe.
As for Sony, they probably figured out that the Dollar/Euro difference+ less money to ibm for not having to pay VM royalities makes up for having to pay the higher import taxes hence they dropped the Linux support.
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2006-01-03
It's 10% import duty and 16% (or more) VAT, and both are included in the 300€. Still, that adds up to $78 - the rest must be Sony's EuroRipoff