1up rips on Sony

Heh, I guess we have different opinions on the average consumer. But where I am at work (secretly visiting a PS2 forum half the day), I could ask anyone "What do you think about the Wii controller?" or "Tell me what you know about the next PlayStation." and I might get an answer from one or two people.
 
The average consumer won\'t know until it\'s on tv, in stores, at their friends house and reports of the holiday shopping crisis are on the news.
 
-Dan

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I\'m with Eik on this one. The average consumer knows nothing about E3 right now. I\'m at work also and I\'ve mentioned E3 , PS3 and Wii to people and all I get is blank stares. Other than the geeky crowd (us), no one cares about this stuff until it starts hittnig the TV commercials and holiday season rolls around. Something that may help Nintendo is people are strapped for cash during the holidays, launch cheap, throw some killer franchises in = mass sales.

On the other hand, Sony has the advatange of brand name and the whole "expensive = good" mentality that America has.

where do you guys work?  apparently someplace without 18-34 year olds.

the IT dept i work in is brimming with misinformation on the 3 new consoles.

then again, we were playing GRAW on the corporate conference room project earlier discussing the finer points of no anisotropic filtering.

Yeah you\'re IT. You\'re tripping over computer nerds.

We\'re talking about the people who call IT departments but haven\'t tried rebooting.  The average consumer. Joe Anyguy. Mr and Mrs Parents of a pre-teen.

apparently you think i work in a 1970\'s IT deptartment

Hehe, well I know what our IT department consists of. ;]

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the price is pretty steep for a console, but the more i think about it..i\'m sure come launch date this thing is gonna fly off the shelves. i probably won\'t get one at launch, but i know i will definitely get one,..hell people said they wouldn\'t pay for gas if it went over $2.00..low and behold gas is over 3.00 and rising...yes i know gas is a necessity but the way people are spending money these days, even with the economy and gas prices, people are still spending money on the latest and greatest... and even tho the price will be a concern for some, i feel for the majority, it won\'t be an issue...

i\'m getting a bit tired now, but the more i think about it, the more i think sony probably could have released this thing at 399 and be real competitive or be even more aggressive and release it at 299...i wonder what would happen if they released the top model at 299? i know it won\'t happen, but i kinda feel they squandered a bit with the price and as some people have stated, graphic capabilities are about the same on both systems so what is sony really offereing other than blu- ray? i honestly don\'t care about wifi or any of that other stuff as long as it was backwards compatiable i was pretty much satisfied.

i hate to sound like a broken record but all that superior tech means nothing it the games are the same on both systems. i\'m not afraid to admit i\'m more of a sony fan, and i wanna see them do well, but i really haven\'t seen anything that tops gears of war, and while i know that graphics aren\'t everything, i just don\'t like the fact that sony followed microsoft\'s example of two different consoles,...sony  really had the opportunity to shine in price and really destroy the competition, but who knows, it seems sony ends up being over-ambitious in trying to be the all in one system...man i\'m gettin tired...i think i\'m startin to just yap about nothin\' as a matter of fact i know i\'am..5:20 am....

a toy should be cheaper than 250$

how has the mario franchise changed?
the fat little guy is still stomping on mushrooms and flying thru pipes

Yet people are still buying the Mario games.

your undeniable wisdom leaves me speechless

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