windbane said:
M$ does not give you the choice to play online games for free like every non-MMO PC and console game. M$ does not give you a hard drive as a standard for their console enabling developers to take advantage and lower load times and make extra content available. They also do not give you the choice to install a hard drive other than the way overpriced ones such as the $180 120GB hard drive (worth $50 retail). Also, apparently it was the consumer choosing against the 20GB PS3 that caused Sony to phase them out. I think it's a bad move on their part because the packages were more comparable. People keep saying, mainly M$, that they give their customers choices, but they don't yet have a blu-ray add-on drive, do they? Wouldn't a consumer want the choice to have the leading HD drive? Both have choices but that doesn't mean the choices are good. Also, I believe you'd have to buy a memory card to save games for the Core version, so add some more money on for that. I think M$ has a very clever strategy because they can offer inferior packages and then pack on add-ons that people will most likely choose later. The best thing on the 360 is Live I keep hearing. Well, to take advantage of online games you have to pay. Buyers are short-sighted, I just wish people on this site weren't. Also, the 20GB PS3 might still be more available than the Wii, and the 20GB version was readily available for months. |
No the 20 gig version is at 1% availability, that's as low as it could possibly be. Not everyone wants the 60 gig version, but obviously at launch the 60 gig version is the only one that is gonna sell. The kind people who buy the PS3 when it has hardly any good games and is highly overpriced would obviously buy the 600$ version. Also retailers didn't want to have them because they made less money on each sold.
If Sony listened to what the consumer wanted they would have put out a 300$ or 400$ system, and would be in a similar situation that the Wii is in right now.
I'd like to see a survey done of how many PS2 owners want blu-ray on the PS3 taking into account that it will cost 200$ or more. Hell i'd like to see a survey done on PS2 owners to see how many even know what blu-ray is.
Most 360 owners will tell you that the xbox live fee is well worth it, while PS3 owners are not paying, but it is much worse. Again, it's an option because you don't have to pay for it. Ps3 owners are basically paying for the price of online in the price of the system.
Who cares about the MS hard drive, is 60 gigs not enough for you? Seriously, it's a console.
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