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HappySqurriel on 20 September 2012
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brendude13 said:
HappySqurriel said:
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The Vita does not have top of the line hardware. I would say SONY did learn their lesson, before the 3DS dropped its price the $249 price point of the Vita was praised.


The PS-Vita's price was praised by the same people who thought $600 was reasonable for a PS3 and $250 was too much for a Wii ...

Essentially, people who look at these in terms of value as hardware rather than value as a system.

Is that unreasonable?

Yes ...

Packaging $5000 worth of high end PC components into a $1000 game console may be an amazing value on hardware but it is still a moronically expensive game console. In contrast, selling $200 worth of components packaged into a $250 console may be an awful deal on hardware but it is a good price for a console.

I don't see how it is, if people want more power then they can pay for it. $600 dollars for a games console is pretty ridiculous, but a $100 premium for much more advanced hardware isn't exactly bad value as a system.

Anyway, that doesn't even apply to the Vita so I don't know why you bought it up, $250 is a reasonable price for a handheld.


The numbers I used were extreme to demonstrate my point ...

To the average consumer a home console is worth somewhere in the $200 to $400 range, and a handheld gaming system is worth somewhere in the $125 to $200 range; and the relative value each system provides is measured in the comparison between the two system's software libraries.

At any price level you will find people willing to pay for a system, but you probably won't get the masses to buy a handheld system for $250 even if it is amazingly advanced compared to its competition.