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US Console Price Drops Widely Rumored
After being rumored on newsgroups and messageboards for a while, larger news sources like IGN.com are reporting the likely imminent price drop for all 3 major consoles in the US. This would make the Playstation 2 $149, the Xbox $149, and the Gamecube just $99. If true, will this spur you into buying one or all of these consoles?
cheap consoles are good, but when two games equate to the hardware i begin to worry...
$50 is so insignificant compared to what someone will likely spend on games in one of these devices.
Here is a partial list of things that you'll spend more on the "media" than the device itself, although everyone focuses on the purchase price of the device.
Game Consoles
DVD Players
CD Players
Printers
Razors
The console prices haven't been that ridiculous, it's the $49.00 games that keep alot of people (like me) from getting/playing these new consoles. Sony had a nice deal with the PSone "Greatest Hits" for $20.00, but when you buy a couple of 50.00$ games that aren't very entertaining, you tend not to bother buying the ones that may actually be worth it and your $99 console collects dust.
Animal Crossing probably gets the most play out of any game I've ever seen. I actually have friends come over simply to get 15 minutes in on it (I have two towns on my GB). It's ridiculous.
People who don't like Zelda's look, haven't played Zelda. Graphically, Zelda is awe-inspiring. Yes, it looks like a cartoon, it looks like the cartoony graphics from the original's manual, it looks like the graphics from some of the older adventure games, it has the type of graphics that "hold" their impressiveness for a long time. FFX, that's already being degraded, and once Doom 3 comes out, you're going to look at FFX and go ehhh.... Like you look at FF8/7 now(go replay them... just look at the graphics). Cartoons hold up well, attempting photo-realistic CG generally doesn't. Now personally, I dislike Zelda, because it's not the type of Zelda I like (pre-ocarina, Link to the Past/Original style, I liked), but I also hated Ocarina of time, which it is a direct sequel to, so... that's no surprise. Zelda is about the thrown, flaming sword and like-likes stealing my magic shield as I steal old men's rupees. It's supposed to be dark, but oh well.
Should be some good games hitting the Gamecube this year. Square/Enix together, on a Nintendo Platform, the last time this happened, we got Chrono Trigger.
With the X-Box you get that warm, fuzzy feeling that every dollar you spend on it goes to a convicted monopolist that is only producing something of any quality so they can dominate the market and then get away with making crap. You can't put a price on that. Besides, there aren't enough good games to justify it costing more than the GameCube! You think an X-Box has as wide a selection as a PS2? HAH! Hope you guys enjoy your lack of principles and your Halo.
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