For Those that do & do not have a PS3... A Quick Question

[Caey]

Hmmz, i am a casual player and i think 400$ is still much. I remember that all the systems i bought were like 250-300€. The SNES was like 100€...

But thats me just buying some old stuff for what i think is a fair price. I compare the price second hand of what i can get currently, to what i pay for a new game. You can get GameCube games for like 10-15€ while new games are often 55€. Yet i don't know why i would pay so much more for the little hours i play.
Further i'm the type that plays gba-games on the train or simple games like pilotwings for the N64 and as long as the graphics make the game easy to play i'm satisfied. I am even sometimes confused by the glitter and glamour that some games have, like Kameo. You see things moving everywhere, or you end up in a hollow semi-reflecting sphere where you can't clearly see where you have to go to...
Another example is Half-Life 2, it's looking great but i enjoyed the original one more.

And thats my problem with the PS3, they are so pushing the whole 'insane hardware' thing that it makes me think at the cell-phones we have now: Java,bluetooth, mp3, mms, whatever... all things we don't use or need but you have to pay for it and it annoys you.
Take the Wii for example, if i put in a game...why can't it just start the game? It's not like i inserted the game just to visit the voting channel...

Thats why i like the DS: one screen where you can choose between the DS or GBA game and set the brightness. And you have simple and cheap games like Another Code that are not graphical memorable events but its simple, it took a bit over 4 hours to complete, and its just nice.

I don't think most of you will agree, but i think i'm not that hardcore gamer. I'm a high speed electronics engineer and all the normal mapping, HDR, bandwidth, wireless or multicore is my job, i see it all day long every day of the week. I don't need to see it all over again when i'm taking a break. I want my consoles to just play games, nothing more nothing less. And wether it fits on a 512kbit cartidge that doesn't even has PAL resolution or it needs a 25GB disk and has 720p support i don't care. It just has to be good.

Compare it to the simpsons, the first episodes were short, ugly and cheap. Yet they were good, and that was enough.

So I'll buy one if its at 250-300€, probably somewhere mid 2010 when you guys sold your old PS3 to me when you're going for the PS4.