| 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..... |
We are comparing it's value compared to the Wii and XBox360, it's contemporary counterparts, not it's predecessor.
For me, the PS3 offered the best value when I bought it. I spent over $550 for my XBox360 buying the wireless adapter, XBox Live Gold, and a charging kit. I spent $500 on my PS3 for all of that to be included. Not to mention I got a free PS2, and HD movie player with it. While you no longer get a PS2 with each PS3, it's still a slightly better value IMO.
Of course, the PS3's percieved value will change with each person, and what they desire from their console. If I didn't want to play games online, did not care about original XBox games, and did not want to download any XBLA games, then the XBox360 would be very enticing at $200.
EDIT: BTW, does anyone think it's ironic that the XBox 360 Arcade can't download some XBox Live Arcade games due to lack of memory?
