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Everyone Still Rumbling About PS3
To put things in perspective, the Curmudgeon Gamer has created graphs showing inflation-adjusted console costs. The PS3 is far from the most expensive console in history (that would be the Neo Geo, at almost $1000 adjusted price), but that hasn't stopped analysts, publishers, developers, and gamers from grumbling about it the week after E3. ABI Research has publicly stated that Sony may have 'hamstrung' itself with the console's high price. Publishers and developers are worried because (despite Sony's protests to the contrary), developers just don't have the kits to make the games. From the GameDaily article: "'A lot of developers have not gotten the kits,' said Sega of America president Simon Jeffrey while attending E3 last week. 'There certainly will not be a lot of titles available.' The result is that publishers that do want to take part in the PS3 launch will have to release games that don't fully take advantage of the power of the Cell processor, added Jeffrey."
Everyone Still Rumbling About PS3
Unfortunately, the PS3 is not going to be doing any rumbling of its own.
And it will hit $1000 on Ebay
I was wondering how I'd pay for Christmas this year.
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Not written by me(quoted from the inquirer) but kinda funny:
Sony boardroom last June. Welsh wizard, Howard Stringer, is in the chair for the first time.
(ACT ONE)
The Sony boardroom. SONY EXECS seated. STRINGER pacing.
STRINGER. OK, moving onto the PS3... what is the easiest way for us to lose the ball on this one?
SONY EXEC ONE. Price, if we make it too expensive then Nintendo and Microsoft will screw us to the wall. Most people will not pay more than what the XBOX360 costs.
STRINGER. Great, anything else?
SONY EXEC TWO. We could delay it for ages until box Microsoft has established itself in the market. That would make it harder for us to claw back our lucrative European and American base.
STRINGER. Not bad, need a few more here.
SONY EXEC THREE. Well it is a bit tricky but we could make two versions of the PS3. One will have all the wi-fi gubbins and other bits that people want and will make it different from the XBOX360 and the Revolution. But make this version even more expensive than the base unit.
STRINGER. Nice thinking. It would also split our marketing budget between two similar products and the punters wouldn't know what we were selling.
SONY EXEC ONE. We could also make a really low key launch of all the details while our competitors are all over the games press like a hot rash.
STRINGER. Interesting how do we do that? There will be a lot of people interested in the PS3.
SONY EXEC ONE. We could go to E3, lock the demonstration models in a glass box and be evasive about crucial things like launch dates.
STRINGER. I like it... we will do all those things.
Sony Exec Two: Are you nuts?
STRINGER. No I am Welsh, we have a long history of being shafted by everyone from the Romans, the Normans, the English and the European Union but singing beautifully while it is done. I have no intention of winning against Microsoft or Nintendo. Now about what is happening with that Blu-Ray thingee. How are negotiations going with the HD-DVD crowd? µ
"far from the most expensive console in history." They say it like it's some sort of accomplishment or something.
What's next...a different study showing that the Sony Rootkit was "far from the most invasive rootkit in history?"
Whatever.
That and he's got the $500 PS3 on there, comparing with the highend 360. He should really have the $600 PS3 on there.
Come on, everyone knows you have to buy two copies of every system. One to open and play, the other to keep in the sealed box as a collectible.
One weekend aught be more than enough.
To watch the cutscenes? Maybe...
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Yeah well the only way to do that is to release a PS3-only dick-sucking peripheral because unless the thing fucking blows me every time I play, it just doesn't have enough to differentiate itself from the competition (given that I don't give one tenth of one shit about Blu-Ray.)
Let's face it, a 50% improvement in graphics on the system (I just made that number up, let's just run with it for the duration of this comment) is not going to translate into a 50% improvement in graphics, let alone gameplay.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Okay, like the wii is going to be all fun and stuff, and I'm like totally going to play it and be all like 'WHEEEE', because that's the name of the thing, well, not exactly the name, but they sound the same and that's what nintendo is going for with the name, and like dude, you're going to have actual light saber battles and you'll hear like the totally cool doppler effect if you play the new Zelda, and omigod I'm so going to run right out and get one and be like all 'WHEEEE!!!one!' but I think that I mentioned that already and this is totally a run on sentence as I haven't used like any of that lame ass faggy punctiation, except for the comma splice that overweight fat bitch of an english teacher warned me about, but she's totally an ex-box chick so I don't have to listen to a goddamned word she says, cause I'm going to be rocking out to my new Nintendo console while she's busy overheating her ex-box power supply and Mr. Schmidt, the P.E. teacher is sitting there with a totally kickass PS3 and no games to play because they couldn't get a dev kit out to all those homo developers, and for the price of one PS3, I've got the wii (remember: WHEEEE) and like six or seven great titles with plumbers and shit.
There, is my UID low enough?
...than a Dell Optiplex GX520 does today.
So, what exactly is the point?
In 1962 an IBM 7094 cost $3,134,500.
Does that mean that $19,356,198.10 is a reasonable price to pay for a Dell Optiplex GX520 today?
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Personally, $600 for a console is an outlandish sum in my household, and if my boy asked for one, I'd tell him he's nuts and he'd better get a job (thankfully he's only 2).
Yeah, if he was older it'd be much worse. I hear the labor market is really suffering now for the five to nine year old demographic. As it is he shouldn't have much trouble landing a job.
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(I say "Wii consoles", because there is no way to pluralize "Wii" that doesn't sound totally fucking stupid.)
The plural of Wii is clearly Uss (pronounced usses). Yes, I'm agreeing with you.
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