HappySqurriel on 29 March 2009
| The said: It's $400 for christ's sake. We're in 2009. The PS2 sold like crazy at $300 back in 2000, that was quite an amount of money back then (and that price tag was unchanged until MAY 2002) PS2: did NOT have ethernet or wifi did NOT have a hard drive did NOT have FREE online gaming did NOT have wireless rechargable BLUE-TOOTH controllers did NOT play any media content except for CDs/DVDs did NOT have USB ports did NOT have cutting edge disc format player (DVD was quite popular and affordable already in late 2000, in comparison Blu-ray launched with the PS3) it DID have something to its "advantage" in that it played its prior generation games. PS3 doesn't do that anymore, but I wonder who cared to play PS1 games that much on their PS2s. Anyway, for whatever it's worth there were PS3s and, to some extent, still can be found that are able to play PS2 games, and upscale them for HD displays to boot. Once you bought your PS2 you certainly HAD TO pay at least $35 for a Sony Memory Card. Most people who gamed a lot and cherished their precious saves ended up buying more than one. That's $335 in the year 2000,2001, half of 2002. $400 for a high-quality marvelous system in 2009. Is that too much to ask? have gamers become so cheap? christ, lord almighty..... |
If we're using the 2009 price of the PS3 shouldn't we be using the 2003 price of the PS2?
If adding something onto a console made it more valueable why doesn't the PS3 have a built in Waffle Iron? Everyone loves waffles and a $400 gaming system with a waffle iron has to be worth more than a gaming system alone, doesn't it?
Why don't you add in the $10 price increase in the cost of games, the $20 price increase on controllers, and the lack of a decent library of value-priced games?
