This makes me think that Sony priced their console correctly. When the Xbox 360 came out, I imagine that the average price paid for per unit was north of $500. I think Sony is indeed pricing this console to the early adopters and making them pay through the nose and that may eventually subsidize the price for the rest of us further down the road.
Same thing with concert tickets. Tickets are sold at the box office for ~$65. What happens? Scalpers pick them up and end up selling them for the true market value.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does ^H^H^H^H^H repeating mean? I can glean from context clues that the word preceeding it is a sarcastic substitue for the word after it.
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This sounds like every corporation out there nowadays. Doing your job isn't good enough, you must continually invent "other" work that is "value added" to make sure you maintain/move up your ranking amongst your coworkers.
I agree with this. This is the price we pay for lower costs. I would have to say that I do not enjoy advertising in general and it would be interesting to see if this becomes the standard in the future. Could it be possible that one day we would have to pay a premium to go to a grocery store that is ad-free (kind of like commercial vs. satellite radio)?
Hey, how about this: don't do previews if the games are as bad as you say they are. If you can't be critical, then you are essentially lying to us. How many times do you see an overly positive preview only to see an average to below-average score on the actual production review?
Quite honestly, it has now come to the point that by the time I get my game magazine, the majority of news is old due to the speed of information on the Internet. I don't know how the game magazines are handling this, but I hope this will cause them to rethink what they include. I really do not care about "fluff" previews. I would rather see original content. Almost all game magazines now have very little distinguishing content from others other than who can cram more curse words in each issue.
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Hey Nintendo fanboy, what exactly did you do at Sony?
This makes me think that Sony priced their console correctly. When the Xbox 360 came out, I imagine that the average price paid for per unit was north of $500. I think Sony is indeed pricing this console to the early adopters and making them pay through the nose and that may eventually subsidize the price for the rest of us further down the road. Same thing with concert tickets. Tickets are sold at the box office for ~$65. What happens? Scalpers pick them up and end up selling them for the true market value.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does ^H^H^H^H^H repeating mean? I can glean from context clues that the word preceeding it is a sarcastic substitue for the word after it.
Same problem here...Right Coaster too
This sounds like every corporation out there nowadays. Doing your job isn't good enough, you must continually invent "other" work that is "value added" to make sure you maintain/move up your ranking amongst your coworkers.
I agree with this. This is the price we pay for lower costs. I would have to say that I do not enjoy advertising in general and it would be interesting to see if this becomes the standard in the future. Could it be possible that one day we would have to pay a premium to go to a grocery store that is ad-free (kind of like commercial vs. satellite radio)?
Where can I get certification for this?
Quite honestly, it has now come to the point that by the time I get my game magazine, the majority of news is old due to the speed of information on the Internet. I don't know how the game magazines are handling this, but I hope this will cause them to rethink what they include. I really do not care about "fluff" previews. I would rather see original content. Almost all game magazines now have very little distinguishing content from others other than who can cram more curse words in each issue.