"New" PS3 Pricing Explanation

[Ganoncrotch]

KBG29 said:
Of course people will find something to complain about.

Here's what I think. The pricing is great, because Sony, and every other Japanese company is hosed by the exchange rate right now. This gives Sony something fresh on the market, and helps them fight back the massive red ink leak.

As for the 12GB unit. I like it as a bedroom unit, and that it is cheap. I've put my own storage in every PS3 I own, so having the option to buy one a little cheaper, and bypass the HDD cost is nice. However, I don't like this being the only option going forward.

Personally, I wish Sony would make a high end device that was capable of playing PS3 games. I would pay the price for a new device that was very high quality, silent, played PS1/2/3 games, had USB ports front and back, brought back the card readers, had a built in SSD, and just looked like a classy A/V unit. I don't understand why they don't make something like that and sell it for a profit. It would be a low volume product, and there would be people willing to pay the $600 - 800 dollars it would cost.

they had something similar to that towards the end of the ps2 life the PSX was a big fancy version of a ps2 with really nice built in harddrive for recording tv and stuff onto the unit to watch after and yeah was really nice to look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_%28DVR%29 it absolutely died a death tho, the concept of an older console for a huge price at this late stage would appeal to very few people and sony know this, the people who really want to get the kinda system you are talking about and have the money to get it... can do so on ebay buying a launch model ps3, you have to remember with this system and the other rebrand of the ps3 you are asking for, these redesigns do not make themselves, there are safety tests that need to be passed, design criteria that needs to be met and of course hardware testing to make sure that the new design runs cool enough for hours and days of gaming.... relaunching a system like this comes at a cost... and I think most peoples thoughts with this thing atm is was it worth sonys time and effort atm when the ps3slim is currently bashing the hell outta the other two systems in sales around the world.