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benatkintoday at 2:16 AM1 replyview on HN

It wasn't though, a full price would have been more, to cover not just components and assembly but the cost of R&D.


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joemitoday at 2:20 AM

Game console dev kits usually cost more than the consoles they're for, not less. They're not mass produced at the scale that the consoles are, and they're sold or leased to companies expecting to make several orders of magnitude more back off the products they create with the dev kits.

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