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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."
Who is behind all this anti-Sony astroturfing recently? Why do Slashfags love Nintendo and hate Sony? They're both run by gooks and take money away from Microsoft's excellent XBox.
And it'll be the best console on paper, and ultimately the ones with the best games. No dinky Nintendo with the third-rate spec and novelty controller, and no embarassingly explaining to your friends about how you have to deal with MS prices, crashes, patches and overheating problems on your xbox 2.
Could we have just one story about either the PS3 or the X-Box 360 that isn't stuffed without enthusiastic shills (mostly with UID's above 900,000) popping up to tell us how TOTALLY AWESOME the Nintendo Wii is going to be?
That would be just great. 'kay? Thanks.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
XBOX360 does not do HD-DVD. It is a plain old DVD player. No HD. Sorry, vapor-ware rumours don't count and 'add-ons' rarely sell for consoles. Even if the add-on is much less than a stand alone HD-DVD player, let's say $500. Half price. End results for Xmas 2006 shoppers:
:)
XboX360+HDDVD pack=500+500=$1000
PS3 incl Blu-Ray = $600
UNless the HD-DVD add-on is much less than (PS3-XBox360) It doesn't make sense to buy the HD-DVD addon *and* an Xbox360...even if you already have an X360, if the PS3 is almost as cheap as the HDDVD add-on, why not go for that?
Personally I have never had a DVD player. Since I skipped the DVD generation entirely, I probably buy something of the new generation - but I need a TV first, right?
JON