WereKitten on 03 April 2009
| reask said: I obviously cannot answer all the replies but in general all the folks who have the PS3 think it is worth the price so fair enough I suppose. I know some people mentioned various features such as wireless etc etc as justification for the higher price tag. Yet I seem to remember when the PS3 launched at the higher price it did not include dual shock control. Now for me that would be more important than wireless as I have my cable going in to the router and it works just fine. Also on the live thing, you only pay if you want to play on-line a feature which does not bother me personally. I do concede the price I quoted was the arcade but you can pick up a 20 gig HD for little or nothing these days. |
About the dual shock: yes, there was no dual shock at launch. Actually, the dual shock 3 only came in existence something like 18 months ago - because Sony had a patent suit issue in the air I think. But nowadays that's the controller you get when you buy your PS3.
As for everything else like wireless, BluRay and free internet gaming, it's about what you want and need that makes the value for you. For example I am in an even smaller subgroup leaning towards the PS3 because I also wanted to be able to easily swap out the HDD for a _big_ one and install Linux on a second partition to run my emulators (project still ongoing, btw, but next weekend I hope to be able to play FFVI from my couch)
