HappySqurriel on 04 May 2009
This has been a pretty bad generation for "budget" gamers regardless of the console manufacturer ...
One of the reasons why Sony was so successful in previous generations was that (after their console was on the market for about 2 years) anyone could walk into a store, pay less than $200 for the console, and buy from a display of games that were (mostly) pretty decent quality games for under $20 ... when you add the cost of "saving" games from being a $19 memory card to being a $50 Memory card or $100 hard-drive, and the price of controllers going from (about) $25 to $50, this generation has translated into the cost of gaming (almost) doubling regardless of the platform you choose.
