| bunchanumbers said: I bought a WWHD bundle. Cost me $250. That's it. Lets say I bought a PS4. Costs me $299. Then I also gotta buy PS+, which is another $50. And another $50 for the rest of its life. I don't think its the same price. I could own a Wii U for 4 years and it costs me $250. Or I could own a PS4 for 4 years and it costs me $500. |
The cost of owning a system can go many ways. For example, you don't "have to" buy PS+. I did and have played online games less than 50 hours (almost all of that was Diablo III) in the 2-3 years had it. I have it for the games and discounts it provides. I figured it up and due to getting PS+ on sale for $30 a year has saved me well over $100 in games I would have bought if I didn't buy PS+ to get them free or discounted.
I like Nintendo, but their games are notorious for holding price and not going on sale. I already own a dozen PS4 games that I paid less than $20 for. Some of these games were only 6-9 months old when I bought them. Now, this is specific to me because I am a high volume gamer. I buy ~20 games a year, so that $10-20 difference on each title comes out to $200-400 a year, or $1000-2000 over the course of the system's life.
I think each gamer has different habits that shape the perceived value any console has. Buying peripharals, services, games, hard drives, etc. can vary greatly so really all we can say is the base consoles cost X or Y.
