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[Zippy6]

shikamaru317 said:

Zippy6 said:

Been on forums too much these last couple of days, seen so many bad takes it's exhausting. From all your xbox digital libraries are going to disappear, to PS6 is going to cost $800 and have $90 games because Xbox consoles won't exist and then other random nonsense even unrelated to the current Xbox questions.

My brain can only take so much flooding of this kind of stuff and it's time to stop!

The end result was an extremely cocky and full of themselves Playstation, who charged $500 and $600 respectively for the two PS3 launch models (1 year after Xbox 360 launched for $400)

I said this recently in another thread. The $599 was not because of cockiness though. Every PS3 was sold at a huge loss and they lost billions. They didn't charge $599 because they were cocky, if they charged less they would have literally died. It was just a terribly designed piece of hardware from a business point of view. Cell and Bluray were both mistakes for a 2006 console. I won't deny that some of their statements you mentioned were horrible, but I don't think the PS3 era is any evidence at all that a dominant PlayStation will overcharge consumers and I think the "Sony has no competition! Price will go up and be insane!" comments are silly. They undercharged with the PS3, they just shouldn't have designed something so expensive.