| windbane said: IGN's take...or, as I like to call it, the second link on google: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/643/643170p1.html
Costs about as much as a PS1 did. |
If you note I said it costed about the same as a PS1 at launch, I then looked at the PS1's price over 2 years and the 360's. It's not as important how much it costs at launch but rather how much it costs over it's lifetime. Unless you think it matters to people that the PS1 was $371 at launch when 21 months later they are thinking of buying one for $180. I don't think it's important but you seem to have a launch price obsession, as if people forever associate a system with its launch price (ok, that may just be the case with the PS3). The PS1 had already been 33% cheaper for 10 months at this point and was about to fall to 50% cheaper. The 360 still sits at 100% (well,~96% with inflation) with a possible drop to 75% at a point after the PS1 had already reached 50%. Of course let's not forget the 360 is a little bit more expensive from the get go, so it's averaging well above the PS1 in its total average price. That is, it's an expensive video game system to most people.
