ps3 $399

Seeing as I\'ll have an Xbox 360 by then just because and a Nintendo Revolution because I it already offers something I want, Sony has to give me a reason to buy their console.

Playing fancy DVDs on my increasingly shittier tv isn\'t going to cut it.

If I got to predict I\'d say it\'ll be either 300 which I might swing or 350 which I\'d skip for awhile.

It\'s just too much money for nothing. A bunch of sequels.

I don\'t even have a reason to pick up Xbox 360 except Perfect Dark, maybe, and that it\'s coming first so might as well grab it.

Sony is going to need to be more competitive on the pricepoint, especially if Xbox is undercutting them with the momentum they already have and a year\'s headstart. Nintendo might win back a few gamers like me who had been losing faith.

The new DS titles and the backward compatibility of the Revolution alone have me ready for what\'s coming. I\'m tired of the derivative, uninspired sequels and knock-off games. Nintendo looks like the last hope.

I\'m heading off topic, but the bottomline is I feel if the PS3 is more of the same, then I\'ll find a better place to spend my $400. If it\'s a useless upgrade like Xbox 360 looks like it will be, then it has to be at least somewhat affordable.

HD or Blue Ray mean nothing to me.

-Dan

[Paul2]

$400 is not a lot consider that they added the Blu Ray.  But I will wait for the price to drop some more, and usually 1st generation videogame consoles may have some glitches and problems such as overheat, laser doesn\'t read disc like how the first generation ps2 were that it will be solve in later generation.

So, its better to buy ps3 a year or two later.  But if it can play Blu Ray video, its hard to pass up for only $400...

[videoholic]

I\'m going to buy 10 of them.  Bammo.  EBay sucka.

Originally posted by videoholic
I\'m going to buy 10 of them.  Bammo.  EBay sucka.

Especially if there ends up being another shortage. SHOW ME THE MONEY.

Anyway, that is gay but its not terrible. Though it does sort of shift the tides in MS\'s favor just a bit. Youre getting equal performance for 25% less than ps3 not to mention that your library of games will have already started to mature etc.

Im sure ill still get one anyway though. Top GFX cards cost more than that when few PC games even fully utilize their power (or so im assuming).

Not the end of the world

why do you need to get it at launch anyway? wait a year or two and it\'ll be half price!

We had to buy PAL launch PS2 for about 525 Euros back in 2000.

This price seems like no problem then.

[BizioEE]

I spent more for PS2 and XBox at launch, so no problem to spend 400/450 euri for the most powerful console eve-created ...but it\'s just me....

I\'m tired of the derivative, uninspired sequels and knock-off games. Nintendo looks like the last hope.

same !!! cant wait for the new Mario, new Zelda, new Metroid, new Animal Crossing..

errrmm.. wait...

I believe many videogame console owners care. Look at the ps2 at launch time, buyers get one not only for ps2 games, they get one because it can also play DVD

I am with LiC on this one.. no "general type dude" know what Blu-ray is. Go around the office, ask around ppl who you work with.

When PS2 launched, DVD was known. you could buy DVD movies everywhere, in every popular shop.

Go to wallmart and ask little tommy at the electronic counter for a blu-ray movie ? Good luck. unless you are a techno fan, you dont know what blu-ray is.

the world is about to find out

and we\'re tech hungry consumers

your average parent will choose the PS3 over the xbox 2 just because it has "blu-ray" on the box

[GmanJoe]

Sony will spoon feed blu-ray into our vocabulary. This is Sony. They know how to market. Add the Playstation name to Blu-Ray...then everyone will know.

The ones who now nag about the price will get either console anyway, eventually.

It\'s not that difficult to start saving up a monthly amount of cash so you\'ll have plenty by the time these consoles launch.

The only use for such premature price discussions is to have just another argument in the console war discussion.

Let\'s see if this prediction holds true. Either way, $400 isn\'t a whole lot of money.

heh

[Paul2]

I predicts PS3 will be sold out at launch time like how PS2 were at launch time.

Assuming the console were ship in 1 million units.  There will be people waiting in line, and I believe at least a few million people know the name Blu Ray, hence one of the reasons they waited in line for.

And I think the console will sell out in the first few months until the production finally surpasses the demand.

Ms should launch the 360 for $250
Make sony lower the price