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I just cannot, cannot believe that people aren't crying bloody murder over a possible $700 price tag for PS3. I should say "probable" not just possible. When you consider that you are justifying that with "oh it will play Blu-Ray," which means that you are going to be playing it on your $2,000 HDTV... I guess I just figured people like that would be out driving one of their several Ferrari Enzo's rather than posting on a gaming forum.
Are the prices going up, due to inflation? (I recently saw that the $199 price of a new NES system at release is actually ~$360 now adjusted for inflation.) Prices may be going up, but our wages are not. The average wage adjusted for inflation is lower now than it was 30 years ago. All these credit cards are going to catch up to people sooner or later... How is the PS3 going to become a mainstream gaming machine at the prices people are talking about? If we see the PS3 released at a price above $500, I predict the Sony machines will become a novelty item, and will never become a mainstream platform, even after price drops. People will look at Xbox 360, and Revolution, not see a justification for a 100% price increase, and pass the PS3 by... (Omg - Revolution could end up costing less than half of a PS3! :doh: ) I mean, I hear people say we won't know until it's released what the price will be. I say phooey to that. I've been watching console releases over many generations, and at least through the info channels I've been paying attention to, I've never been surprised at the cost of a console on release date. Will Sony suprise me? They haven't with their last 3 console releases, so I see no reason that this release would be any different, especially with such a large, costly amount of new tech thrown into the mix... When PS1 came out, CD's had been around for many years and were an old technology. When PS2 came out, DVD's had been around for years and were old tech. The cost of adopting a new tech like Blu-Ray that hasn't even been proven in the market is going to be high... (I will lol like mad if people adopt Toshiba/Microsoft's HD standard instead.) Lol... any console release that makes me break out in a discussion of the U.S. economy is obviously priced ridiculously high... 3DO comin' liek wut??!!111 Most amazing jew boots
"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much – the best of us is washed away…" - G'Kar
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How ya doing, buddy?
"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much – the best of us is washed away…" - G'Kar
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This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.
"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much – the best of us is washed away…" - G'Kar
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Interesting news. I could skip Ridge Racer 6 and head right to 7. That is, if Sony can get into my good graces enough to erase the whole DRM/Rootkit issue, their 1-disk-1-ps3 anti-piracy lunacy, how they screwed over Fiona Apple's latest release to make it sound like it was performed by a drunken cover band, and the list goes on...
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?
"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much – the best of us is washed away…" - G'Kar
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I'll just buy a Wii at launch for $200, and a price-dropped Xbox 360 Premium package for $100 LESS than those standing in line to buy a PS3. :biggrin: Actually, I'll just buy the Wii and then have $400 left to purchase games with for the next year...
I have a PS2 now and really enjoy it, but at this rate it will be 7 years before the PS3's price drops to even $300... I was speaking idiomatically.
"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much – the best of us is washed away…" - G'Kar
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Although, I do have to say one thing about Sony's price point: The Xbox came out after the PS2, and cost more than the PS2, yet the Xbox 360 came out before the PS3 by an entire year. Looking at total $ expenditure in game consoles over time, if MS kept up with that pace then overall the Sony consoles are cheaper than the MS consoles.
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?
"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much – the best of us is washed away…" - G'Kar
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That upscaling feature is pretty sweet, and really the only way I could ever hope to reasonably play all my PSX games on HDTV (eventually you won't even be able to buy an SDTV, just like CRT computer monitors are hard to find). This makes eventually getting a PS3 a more attractive proposition.
FELIPE NO |
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
In the final analysis, Sony has stated they intend for the life-span of the PS systems to be what, generally 7-10 years? If Sony is dumping hardware emulation of PS2 games within just the first year of console's life-span, then they will need to make software emulation work or suffer the consequences for the next decade. Basically, they had better make it work.
Jam it back in, in the dark. |