MikeB on 22 December 2008
@ Fumanchu
As of today the PS3 really hasn't shown us much of a technical superiority in any case - blaming the developers or architecture learning curve notwithstanding they haven't shown us why we should pay the extra $200. Therein lies the problem - being more expensive is fine...as long as the added benefits are there in its' primary function, that of playing games.
IMO it already has with exclusive games currently shown to be under development or already released to the public. And that´s also part of the problem, some fanboys (and biased media) are getting upset, many of which having already rooted for the inferior and failed HD DVD format in the past.
I would have happily paid 200 dollars extra for my failed and sold 360 premium, if the console was less failure prone, provided scratch resistant game discs, had its power supply internal, came with less rigid cabling and made less noise during gameplay, provided free basic online gameplay, etc. Would I have known such issues beforehand, I wouldn't have bought the console at all.
Considering the PS3 has a Cell, Blu-Ray player, default harddrive and many other extras I would have easily paid a thousand bucks at launch as well. (edit: let's make that a thousand Euros, as converted I actually did already pay over a thousands dollars at launch
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