Probably not, the price, albeit it is something that holds me back, is not the only reason i'm not buying it yet, but also the lack of things that interest me.. at this stage (in terms of my interest in their lineup), i'd consider it if it reached 300, and definitely get it if it reached 250

So it seems the overall consensus is that
"If it's $400 I would buy... or consider buying one"
I gotta feeling that is what's gonna happen...

Especially if the console is approx. $400 in Japan right now.

Well... there is $200 down the drain. I could of spent that on games or controllers. BAH! Stupid "Gotta have 'em all" mentality.

Never bought a console for more than $200.

Right now, I have too much I still want to play on the DS until I can start thinking about games in other consoles.

$400 is still too much for me, otherwise I'd already have a 360.

When the 360 drops in price to $299 for a premium it will show up on my radar, when it drops to $249 or less I'll probably get one if I haven't already.  By the time the PS3 falls below $300, I'll have a Wii and a 360, and enough games for both to make justifying another console purchase very difficult.

Hmmz, i am a casual player and i think 400$ is still much. I remember that all the systems i bought were like 250-300€. The SNES was like 100€...

But thats me just buying some old stuff for what i think is a fair price. I compare the price second hand of what i can get currently, to what i pay for a new game. You can get GameCube games for like 10-15€ while new games are often 55€. Yet i don't know why i would pay so much more for the little hours i play.
Further i'm the type that plays gba-games on the train or simple games like pilotwings for the N64 and as long as the graphics make the game easy to play i'm satisfied. I am even sometimes confused by the glitter and glamour that some games have, like Kameo. You see things moving everywhere, or you end up in a hollow semi-reflecting sphere where you can't clearly see where you have to go to...
Another example is Half-Life 2, it's looking great but i enjoyed the original one more.

And thats my problem with the PS3, they are so pushing the whole 'insane hardware' thing that it makes me think at the cell-phones we have now: Java,bluetooth, mp3, mms, whatever... all things we don't use or need but you have to pay for it and it annoys you.
Take the Wii for example, if i put in a game...why can't it just start the game? It's not like i inserted the game just to visit the voting channel...

Thats why i like the DS: one screen where you can choose between the DS or GBA game and set the brightness. And you have simple and cheap games like Another Code that are not graphical memorable events but its simple, it took a bit over 4 hours to complete, and its just nice.

I don't think most of you will agree, but i think i'm not that hardcore gamer. I'm a high speed electronics engineer and all the normal mapping, HDR, bandwidth, wireless or multicore is my job, i see it all day long every day of the week. I don't need to see it all over again when i'm taking a break. I want my consoles to just play games, nothing more nothing less. And wether it fits on a 512kbit cartidge that doesn't even has PAL resolution or it needs a 25GB disk and has 720p support i don't care. It just has to be good.

Compare it to the simpsons, the first episodes were short, ugly and cheap. Yet they were good, and that was enough.

So I'll buy one if its at 250-300€, probably somewhere mid 2010 when you guys sold your old PS3 to me when you're going for the PS4.

Same here, I won't even consider either of the HD consoles until I can get one with a hard drive for $200 or less. And is reliable. ;)

I have bias beyond the price: I was actually bored with gaming in 2005 and didn't plan on buying anymore consoles, ever. No matter what I played, I just couldn't help but think, "I've done this before."

I thought the new Nintendo "Revolution" controller was going to be no big deal and that people were getting excited for nothing, then I saw it.

That was actually the point where I said, "Ok, maybe I'll stick with gaming after all..."

$400 and I'm there, though i don't expect this price to be hit till Holiday 08 either.

400 australian plz

I´ll only buy one if they increase the price.