Why Nintendo has ruined this gen for me

[Tuganuno]

c0rd said:

Tuganuno said:

70 million gamers? Have you talked with each one of 'em? How do you know that an x% of those consumers don't have any kind of idea about hardware and therefor don't know if that's a good or a bad deal? And my brother bought one for 200€ in 2009. He wanted to get some of the Mario classics, but he wasn't very happy with price. Perhaps he wasn't the only one.

Sony launched the PS3 for 600$ but the production costs were superior to that number, so as you can see, one of the consoles is offering a pretty damn good deal, specially because it was and still is the cheapest blu-ray player. Ok now I sounded like a salesman... lol

Wow, that is ridiculous. Do you think there are more people that feel a $250 Wii was more of a rip off than a $500-600 PS3?

A PS3 at $600 was an awful price. Here's something you may be missing: production costs do not matter to the customer. I don't give a fuck if the Wii costs $10 to make, it's reasonably priced as it is for me. If the PS3 cost $1000 to make, I still wouldn't be thanking them when I end up paying them $500 for it.

Ok so, basically what you said was that, even if Nintendo's console costed 5$ to make, and they sold it to you for 250$, you wouldn't mind to get ripped off because the PS3 was twice as expensive, even tho it costed 1000$ to make... You obviously know that you pay for quality, no fanboysm intended, but if a PS3 costs 800$ to make, it's because it has stuff that makes it so expensive - Blu Ray player, for example. If you think that it's too much money for a console, ok, I can accept that, but don't dare to say that paying 250$ for something that costs 135$ to make was a good deal, because it wasn't and at least in my mind, it's completely irrational. I could only accept that if a company was about to bankrupt, or if they wanted to make some profits for a bit because they had a couple of bad years untill then.