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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: Mr. Kennedy on February 04, 2001, 05:22:20 AM
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Ok, I have bought so much stuff for the PS2(and the system itself), Sony is making me go bankrupt, I also bought one of their TV\'s so I could use S-Video. Here\'s a list of what I bought, and what it costs(approximatly)... just PS2 stuff... I\'m not gonna bother with PS1 stuff work that in on your own...
Sony Playstation 2 --- $300
Sony Multitap --- $35
Sony Dual Shock 2 Controllers(x3) --- $105
Sony 8 MB Memory Card --- $35
Madden 2001 --- $50
DOA2: HC --- $50
Unreal Tournament --- $50
SSX --- $50
Sony Verticle Stand for PS2 --- $15
S-Video Monster Cables for PS2 --- $35
Sony 20" Wega --- $350
Grand Total --- $1075 + Tax
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It feels good spending money doesn\'t it :)
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Wow 8)
that\'s all I have to say about this...
I wouldn\'t have money for half of that! I mean.. I\'ve dreamt of buying a multitap and 3 extra controllers but I\'m outta cheese... I\'m just saving to get me a FFIX when it comes out :)
I\'m poor after all...
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dang. i gotta get myself a proper job or win the lottery or something.
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Good ole fashion saving and a summer job did me well...
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I\'ve spent right at the $1000 mark. Rather depressing. At least $300 of that could of went for more "useful" things.
Ah, oh well.
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I spent almost that much @ launch. If I weren\'t boycotting Sony products, I\'d have spent twice that by now... but I guess thats still way more than most people...
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i\'m thinking of getting a projector, instead of a new tv. I can get a used one for a 1000 dollars from a friend. This puppy is worth 4 grand canadain. (i\'m canadain)
it\'s one of those projectors people use for the pc. but can do both
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now why would you be boycotting Sony? I buy %99 of myu consumer electronics from them... VCRs, DVD players, CD players, Headphones, well, you know... anyway, they\'re the best electronics company out there...
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Well, I won\'t even get into the \'best Consumer elect.\'s company\' argument, but I will say I just disagree. As for my boycott, look at poor Sega... 50% of the creative and innovative stuff that pushes hardware foward is dead. Compared to the innovation of DC, PS2 is a overhyped set top box. Sega brings a lot to the hardware side of the industry (they had the first analog buttons, the triggers. Sony just copied in a attempt to one up them, added the number of analog buttons.) as opposed to Sony who\'s other innovation is 2 analog sicks and handles on a snes controller (this time just to one up Nintendo). The withdrawing of Sega from the hardware industry is going to leave it up to Nintendo alone to innovate. I\'m sure their up to it, but if it werent for Pokemon, you know they\'d have been in Sega\'s position after Virtual Boy and N64. Sony is a leech on the industry, homogenizing my favorite pasttime/hobby into a interactive hollywood. How many truely good movies are their each year? How many CD\'a a year come out that you like from begining to end? With MS entering the fray, the only thing that\'ll keep the industry true to itself, is Nintendo, and a few developers like Sega, etc. I blame mainstream gamers for this. Where did they come from? Thank Sony. They together \'killed\' Sega. And being that I actually *gawd!* have some honor and loyalty *whodathunkit?* I am only buying Sega games for PS2, but no non Sega games. So why am I here still? I don\'t hate ya\'ll, and we\'re all (well, most of us) real gamers, so I still like coming here.
And despite what some think, I dont love MS either, I just cant blame them since their systems not out yet, and it\'s be unfair of me to be as critical. No one said \'I\'m gonna skip DC, DC sux. Xbox rulez!!\' Many have said it w/PS2 though, and this is a free contry (USA) and I can boycott in protest as I please, being as bitter as I want. I may rent games, I\'m just not buying any Sony stuff. I\'m still a gamer and would be mental not to like some of the **** coming up. But I want to do everything in my power to send Sony a message. Yes, they will never notice I\'m gone, so what? I have principles, and I stand firm behind my beliefs. I\'m not a spinless cry baby who just talks **** and can\'t back it up. I stand up for everything I believe in, no matter how insignificant.
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Where the **** did that come from?
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He asked why I boycotted Sony, and I told him... it feels good to write (or type) your anger...
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Lol. Thats Stupid. A company is a company. In the south, the blacks boycotted Buses, and white buisness. What happened? they suffered. Thats a cause. But Sony is a Japanese company, That could care less about you boycotting them, because they make such a good buisness
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Originally posted by TheOneBillyGunn
now why would you be boycotting Sony? I buy %99 of myu consumer electronics from them... VCRs, DVD players, CD players, Headphones, well, you know... anyway, they\'re the best electronics company out there...
EXCEPT when it comes to laptops... hehehe
anyway, Alteredbeast accepted sega\'s fate, and so have I.
We both look foward to sega\'s last hardware year with games like sonic 2 and shenmue 2 and perhaps some surprises, and then enjoy out ps2 too :) Sony has little to do with the demise of sega, its been in the plans all along, proabably months before the ps2 was release or before.
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Chrono- Nigga please. It was all PS2 and mainstreamers fault. No one elses.
Animal- You keep acting like you like Japanese culture, but turn around and diss honor and loyalty. That\'s a American for you... And my \'cause\' is not supposed to be compared to anything in the past, it\'s simply my decision as someone with strong convictions and loyalty showing with my consumer dollar how I feel about this.
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see topic...
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Chrono, I replied in your \'Why DC is dead\' thread.
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me too
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I think that people accuse me of spreading propaganda. I have no beef with Sega, Microsoft, or Nintendo. Stop treating me like I am an ignorant Sony fanboy, I have my reasons for supporting them, and I know that they are not perfect. You can\'t blame Sony for the demise of DC, it was inevitable. Sony needed a new system, and the PS2 was the answer. EVERY SYSTEM WILL HAVE DRAW BACKS!!! Stop featuring Sony\'s as if it was something new everyday.
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Sorry Billy, but your post has me so confused...
featuring Sony\'s? huh? And I don\'t remember calling you a fanboy...
Yes, Sony did need a new system. Too bad they killed a better one like DC... irony rocks!... :D
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PS2 is getting a bad rap because of the mainstreamers, PS2 is a good system. PS2 did not bring down the DC!!! For the millionth time, Sony was due for a new system, DC was just the victim by default, it was the aftermath of the PS2 launch that killed it... not the system, the system was needed.
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Actually, taking a chapter from Nintendo here, PSone is selling fine. PS2 couldve just as easily been released this fall, or March like in Japan. It didn\'t HAVE to come out when it did.
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It would just be delaying the inevitable... any time the PS2 came out would have had the same results...
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Originally posted by TheOneBillyGunn
I buy %99 of myu consumer electronics from them... VCRs, DVD players, CD players, Headphones, well, you know... anyway, they\'re the best electronics company out there...
Sony sucks, especially their electronics. They are still banking off the success of the release of their Walkman, so says many anyway. They are all about hype and marketing, building lots of extra features and gadgets into their products, most of which are useless. This allows Sony to sell their stuff at a higher price than their competitors. Just look at their DVD players. Their lowest model (s360) averages $50 more than other DVD players at the same level.
Who makes the best of what (considering price/performance)? imo-
VCR- Panasonic, Sony
DVD player- Toshiba, Panasonic, Pioneer
CD player- Marantz
Headphones- Grado, Sennheiser, AKG
/rant
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Originally posted by TheOneBillyGunn
It would just be delaying the inevitable... any time the PS2 came out would have had the same results...
No, a bigger installed base for DC would be the result, and DC would\'ve had a better chance.