Simple answer: Yes.
Complex answer: As mentioned, I'm not only saving money on the system, I'm saving money on games too. I can save, for example, $30 a game by waiting for it to drop to the "Greatest Hits" price of $20. More to the point, though, I don't care about playing the latest games as they come out. I almost never buy a game when it comes out... and when I do, I only play a couple of nights a week, if that.
It has nothing to do with cheapness, it has to do with priorities. I have others things I'd like to spend that $100 on. While I enjoy videogames, they do not define my existence. I can wait for them to be what I consider reasonably priced. That goes for consoles too. There's nothing cheap about prioritizing where your money goes.
No, not everyone who has ever wanted an XBox has one now. I, for example, tend to wait until a console is at least a generation old before I purchase it. I can't see paying $200 or close to it for a console when I can get perfectly functional consoles with cheap games for much less. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who does this.
As far as saturation goes... yes, the market will be saturated, no doubt about that. However, I can't see a real reason beyond laziness for Microsoft not releasing a console that is fully compatible with the previous generation of games. If Sony can do it with the Playstation, I find it hard to believe that Microsoft is somehow unable to do it. Perhaps they planned poorly, or perhaps they just didn't see the need for it. All I know is that my PS2 plays my PS1 games perfectly... and without me having to have a hard drive to make them work.
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Simple answer: Yes. Complex answer: As mentioned, I'm not only saving money on the system, I'm saving money on games too. I can save, for example, $30 a game by waiting for it to drop to the "Greatest Hits" price of $20. More to the point, though, I don't care about playing the latest games as they come out. I almost never buy a game when it comes out... and when I do, I only play a couple of nights a week, if that. It has nothing to do with cheapness, it has to do with priorities. I have others things I'd like to spend that $100 on. While I enjoy videogames, they do not define my existence. I can wait for them to be what I consider reasonably priced. That goes for consoles too. There's nothing cheap about prioritizing where your money goes.
No, not everyone who has ever wanted an XBox has one now. I, for example, tend to wait until a console is at least a generation old before I purchase it. I can't see paying $200 or close to it for a console when I can get perfectly functional consoles with cheap games for much less. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who does this.
As far as saturation goes... yes, the market will be saturated, no doubt about that. However, I can't see a real reason beyond laziness for Microsoft not releasing a console that is fully compatible with the previous generation of games. If Sony can do it with the Playstation, I find it hard to believe that Microsoft is somehow unable to do it. Perhaps they planned poorly, or perhaps they just didn't see the need for it. All I know is that my PS2 plays my PS1 games perfectly... and without me having to have a hard drive to make them work.