Just browsing through the thread and it's a goldmine.

This thread is a failure. Deal with it.

Is there a 16-year old kid who's hacked kowenicki's account?

Whoever you are pretending to be kowenicki I ask that you stop, especially since you are so obviously a Sony fan trying to make kowenicki look bad. Such spurious and irrelevant points simply make MS fans look desperate to counteract the awesome that Sony just did. Comparing Xbone price today against PS3 from back when has no bearing on the fact that XBone is $100 more expensive than PS4.

Good arguments for Xbone pricing are about value for money compared to PS4: Kinect comes packed in, which is awesome tech and worth every bit of the extra $100 you pay. You get a year of XBLGold which means a year of all the great value that Gold has to offer. Now that PS4 caomes with paid for online play most gamers are going to decide they need plus so have to add to add $60 (though they're not forced into having a PSN accountof any description) to their $399 pricetag. This makes Xbone effectively only $40 more expensive than PS4 (for those who decide to get PNS+) and $40 for Kinect 2.0 is amazing.

Granted the Xbone is less powerful than the PS4, but that difference in power won't amount to a significant difference in the quality of the games that the two consoles share. And Xbone exclusives are still going to look amazing, compared to last gen.

Xbone is also oversized, and not as sexy as the PS4, but those things have nothing to do with price, I just wanted to point that out, because it's pretty cool that Sony have produced a more powerful product in a smaller package. I just hope they ran a few test units non-stop for 1000 hours to make sure there's no overheating issues with that weeny package. I have a weeny package and it sometimes overheats... you probably didn't need to know that.

This thread is basically BS.

Inflation doesn't apply to technology.

How much was the Atari Jaguar again!? EXACTLY.

This is damage control and you know it.

HA!

It's called PANIC.

Very few people pay £500+ for a phone. They get them free with their contract and upgrade their handset when they renew their contract. They are also portable devices which people consider more essential than a games console. Really poor example, please try better.

Alternate slant on the "inflation means it's cheaper"

"Total pay in some parts of the UK has shrunk by more than 10% since the start of the downturn in 2007, analysis by a union organisation suggests."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22851978

So as I said, £429 now is actually MORE to a lot of people than £425 was back in 2007, irrelivent of inflation.

$500 means just as much now to everyone as it did back when PS3 launched. End thread.

Why are you using a 2006 price to adjust for inflation when these consoles weren't even out back then??  If you're going to attempt to awe us with your "maths" and your "financial skrillz" then perhaps it should make better sense.

There was a $499 model, so $67  difference actually.