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ArtofAngels on 06 October 2007
Dolla Dolla said:
So, not wanting flame wars to break out makes me a grammar whore? Ok

You probably caused more of a flame war trying to stop one



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blaydcor on 06 October 2007

How does a 15 year old have $1200 to throw around?



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Ishy on 06 October 2007

he doesn't... but his mommy does =P



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DS:Lunar Knights, Pokemon Diamond, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass ,Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Hotel Dusk:Room 215, Mario vs DK 2: March of the Mini's and Picross DS
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X360: Spider Man
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jhlennon1 on 06 October 2007

But yeah, to the OP, $400 is still quite a pricetag. Especially since it's not so much a price cut as much as a stripping of hardware and then paying for what we get.

Is that some kind of funny joke?

The $400 40GB PS3 provides you with everything required for current gen gaming. It gives you a HDD for videos, trailers, demos etc... , WIFI for internet access, HDMI, Bluray for movies and still plays EVERY PS3 game available.



Dolla Dolla on 06 October 2007
ArtofAngels said:
Dolla Dolla said:
So, not wanting flame wars to break out makes me a grammar whore? Ok

You probably caused more of a flame war trying to stop one


You're probably right, and that's the best part. The convo has remained quite civil, minus the Hus zxz account, which is what I expected more of.



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leo-j on 06 October 2007
Ishy said:
he doesn't... but his mommy does =P

What are you 16? How would my mom afford that?  I aint rich.. it was my dad :P



 

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super_etecoon on 06 October 2007
leo-j said:
I bought my ps3 for $1200.00

In gamestop. Came with 4 games. And an extra controller.

Naw I dont think $399.99 is expensive for a

bluray player, 1080p HD dvd upscaler, playstation 1, playstation 3, online gaming, and multi media functionality.

$399.99 is too cheap for all of that.


So how do you know how much is too expensive Leo-J?

You don't even know how much it costs to put food in your belly or a roof over your head.   

 



darconi on 06 October 2007
ChichiriMuyo said:
sieanr said:
ChichiriMuyo said:

sieanr said:

Really, $400 is still fucking expensive.; its more than the PS2 launched at


Actually, it's not really much more, if at all more, than what the PS2 launched at when you consider the fact that we've had a lot of inflation in the last 7 years and the economy is taking a tumble. Really, in terms of cost of living, the PS3 40GB as a luxury item is no more of a financial strain than the PS2 was at launch. Of course, you probably didn't have to worry about your cost of living then and may not even now, so you may not know squat about that.

And as far as the market is concerned, a $400 PS3 is more valuable than a $350 360. When the difference was $400 to $500 (and still 600 euros...) PS3 was actually selling more. While this is another gimp model, it's still very likely to put the PS3 well above the 360 and even more so if the 80GB comes down to $500.


Inflation calculator; What cost $300 in 2000 would cost $351.26 in 2006 - http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

But given your post, I'd say you dont know jack about cost of living. In fact, you even say that the economy is worse off than it was in 2000, meaning that a luxary item like the PS3 is even more of a finacial strain than the PS2 at launch. Thats some great logic....


I may have worded it poorly, but you've missed what I meant. In terms of the cost of living, everything else has jumped up more rapidly in comparison. So yes, a PS3 is a more severe financial strain than a PS2, but it's not by a whole lot and it's a whole lot less of a jump than everything else you would want to go out and buy.


 That makes no sense, by definition, inflation is the measure of the cost of living.  So if inflation has gone up only a moderate percent, then the cost of living has only gone up a moderate percent.  You can't go and say everything else has jumped up more rapidly when the actual index that measures the jump indicates it hasn't.  In fact, if anything, its even worse because for the last couple of years, average wages in the US has actually tracked below inflation so real wages has actually decreased making the inflation adjusted price more of a financial strain than before.

By the numbers above, even at the reduced $400 price, that means its still almost 2x the rate of inflation which is very significant.  A lot of people really are losing perspective on videogame consoles because they've gotten used to the idea of $400 and $600 consoles.  The only consoles that have been priced this high have been ones that failed miserably.  They are not the mass market price and won't be for a long time until inflation finally catches up in another 10 years or so.   The wii hit it right with the pricepoint.  If you desperately want bleeding edge technology, thats what the computer market is for.

 

 



LordTheNightKnight on 06 October 2007
Bonafide732 said:
of course its still expensive but youd be kidding yourself if you said that 400 is not gonna bring in more consumers... the 360 sold pretty good at 400.. of course it had a better library but still

 That's why he didn't say it wouldn't bring in any customers at all. Read the OP again.



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ArtofAngels on 06 October 2007

I have enough money left over after buying my car to buy the PS3 50 times over but I still say $400 USD is too expensive for what it is, HD features my ass, I want good games.