@ArnoldRimmer
At first I thought it was selective memory on your part. A lot of forum members sanitize the past. Not so much a case of nostalgia painting the past as people repaint the past to cover up the blood stains. That said I checked your join date, and I can see that you basically missed the party that took place on this, and many other forums. That said I can assure you that price points are always a spin fiasco. Let me say this the level of spin about the peripherals so far is only a shadow of what it will be until they are both priced. Nobody wants to commit to a strategy that could blow back on them.
Basically without the price point we get rebels without a cause. They can't argue against the price without the price, and a lot of them fully intend to argue against the price regardless. To them the price can only be a argument against the platform and the peripheral. They just can't make a paradoxical argument at this point without seeming grossly stupid in the process. You can't hold the position that something is both cheap and over priced. They could never argue that openly they would get crushed by rational posters in a instant. Not that their final argument will be all that persuasive unless the price is way out on the margins either way.
Basically this is what Fanboys do. They come from the position that they are going to trash the other manufacturers. Not that they disagree with a point in principle, but they disagree with the concept that the other manufacturers even exist at all. They have a Us versus Them mentality, and they see no problem with churning out propaganda. All of that even before you run into users that just have a strong bias. Trust me people that fairly balance the issue on these forums and on others are the real rarity.
