landguy1 said:
To add to your thought, I would agree that the Fitness angle is of $0 value to anyone not interested. That's kind of the point of adding so many capabilities. To mosst people on this site, they want it for gaming. So the $500 works for them for that purpose. For another person, they may want it for the Media hub/ motion or voice controls. If that is important for them, they may buy it for that alone. For another it could be another capability that interests them and they do the same. I guees that I am pointing out that we as gamers have already found the reason for our next gen purchase. But the rest of the world may come to another conclusion as to the reason why they do it. |
i get your angle and frankly your arugument has merit. don't think i don't see the validity of where you are coming from.
maybe what i'm saying is that if you took the xbone and from it eliminated the headset, the expensive CPU, the GPU, the EDRAM, about 6 GB of ram, the really big cooling system required for a high performance device, the large 500 Gb harddrive, the fluff in the gamepad like rumble in the triggers, and anything else that is explicitly there for the purpose of gaming i believe you'd be left with a $100 to $150 device.
so A) my argument really come down to it is too expensive for what it is to a non gamer. the price is inflated by 3-4x.
and B) imho, MS and/or Sony would be really smart to release a purely entertainment derivitive of their devices at a reasonably low cost. the features are actually really kind of cool. ..just not at that price.
at this price the features make gamers feel really good about their purchase. this is part of the reason i think pre-order numbers are so high and why i personally think that doesn't mean long term success. i envision a really high front loaded sales but a really quick drop off not unlike what the wiiU experienced. ...but that's a different thread.
