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HappySqurriel on 21 September 2012
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logic56 said:
HappySqurriel said:
brendude13 said:

The Vita does not have top of the line hardware. I would say SONY did learn their lesson, before the 3DS dropped its price the $249 price point of the Vita was praised.


The PS-Vita's price was praised by the same people who thought $600 was reasonable for a PS3 and $250 was too much for a Wii ...

Essentially, people who look at these in terms of value as hardware rather than value as a system.

so you have no idea what your talking about, right, now that we got that out the way....

the 250 price was praised becasue before that was announced, given the hardware it was assumed the Vita was going to be at minim 350-400 dollars for the  non 3G model 400 to 500 for the 3G model

it wasn't just the most power handheld gaming console out it was the most powerful handheld out period, beating cell phones and tables alike, so when Sony announced it was only going to be 250 and seeing the 3ds also at 250 people were overly estatic NO ONE thought the 600 dollar price was reasonable, they brought it anyway becasue the ps3 was a new console.


Bold: Isn't that exactly what I was saying?

As for "nobody" thought the $600 price tag was reasonable, enough people were defending it that Penny-Arcade was making fun of them:

 

I remember reading countless posts of PS3 fans defending the price, and I even remember watching the e3 wrap up videos and saw many of the "journalists" claim that $250 was too much to pay for outdated hardware (Wii) when they could buy bleeding edge hardware and a blu-ray player for $500/$600.