The Best Value Console

[dunno001]

Vergis said:
With console value it has to be the PS3 really.... No not saying its the "Better" console (getting annoyed with that stupid fanboy shit) but really it cant be argued when comparing features.

Actually, it can be argued, as different people would value different features. For this household, movie playback is irrelevant. We have a couple of perfectly good DVD players, and we're not willing to pay the premium price over DVD to get a BR disk. So the value of Sony's forced Blu-Ray to us is $0. However, we also have games from all 3 of the prior-gen systems. Thus, backwards compatibility is a desired feature. As we already have the prior systems, there is no additional financial cost to us, however, we do have a critical cost that is only in the PS2-3 issue- system space. Our switch boxes are full. By getting a PS3, we would have to choose to not have something else hooked up. That's not a price we're willing to pay, so even at $0, it's just not valuable to us.

Now, if you want to look only at paper, and say that you need everything that is shoehorned into a system, you can get a different story. One of the powers of competition is the ability to choose what is the best value for each on an individual basis. If you don't need Blu-ray, wireless, motion, etc, then don't factor it. At that point, it becomes a very cloudy picture as to which is truely the best value...