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powdermilkman · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:31 am Post subject: PS3

Well boys and girls its official...the price for the playstation 20 gig is $499 and the 60 gig is $599. It will be released in the states November 17th.

I am sure they know what they are doing, but being a loyal PS fan from the get go i cannot bring myself to pay $599 for a video game system then have to shell out likely $150 bucks for another controler and some games. The last time a video game system was this much it was the ole 3DO and well im sure very few people here remember that system. This to me seem idiotic, but maybe its a joke or a way to see how the public will react and they will lower the price down to something like XBOX 360 range. I know the specs and the hardware in there are expensive, but as of last week i had kept reading how Sony was going to go ahead an take a loss for a few years because they were confident that most studios would come around to Blue-Ray DVD. Ugh but 600 dollars for the top of the line one, its not known now whether or not the expensive one will come with more stuff like the white box and green box 360. Geeze how many people are going to be able to afford that or want to afford that...BAD GAME SONY!

To be fair ill give the official specs as of this morning....

* cd, dvd, blu-ray disc
* bluetooth, WiFi, giga-bit ethernet
* dolby digital surround sound
* removable harddrive
* true 1080p HD resolution
* wireless controller, up to 7 players and will be like Wii's controlers and impliment motion
* compatible with psone, ps2, dvd, cd, blu-ray
Interoperability with PSP.
* November 2006 worldwide launch confirmed.

PMM

DarkTemplar316 · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:46 am Post subject:

wow. i was really hoping it wasnt going to be that much. hopefully they will lower the price or something.

StrontiumDog · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:51 am Post subject:

I remember the 3DO...

Heck I remember the Atari 2600

Pity about the price...I guess the XBox 360 will do well this Christmas!
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bullseye lespaul · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:52 am Post subject:

wow thats pretty costly

looks like ill be waiting a while! but it looks awsome
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Bleeding Tomato · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 10:59 am Post subject:

Too much for me. Infact it's more than a recent motor I bought for a Trans am I'm resoring. Count me out on this one

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vTEC · Server Admin Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 1495

not much of a PS fan here....thats why i have my computer. Id rather be playing DOD
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powdermilkman · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 11:26 am Post subject:

the rumor soon vtec is that people on PC and Console will get to play with each other using which ever medium they want...so you might be fighting someone in DOD that is playing it on their playstation (thats just example main games they have been clammoring about are HALO, BF, and COD).

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crackhead_fred · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject:

I too am a loyal PS fan, but if thats the price of the new console then maybe it'll have to wait a while.

JtH · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject:

boo to console games

hooray for pc games

I doubt i need to explain the logical superiority of pc games over console games.

"Console systems are for gamers who dont really know how to game"
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Mike · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

Malanthros · Registered User Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 454

Funny you say that Mike, because out of all the controllers, most people find Playstation hit the nail on the head with their first try when it comes to that. Poeple like that controller the most overall.

But yeah, everyone look at things this way. If you were going to buy a computer with all that kind of stuff, even jsut for the tower, what do you think you would pay? About that price right?

When it comes to consoles, people just want to pay less for more. It's always been like that. And I believe the launch of the PS2 was around $700 canadian, so I dont think this is the first system to do it.
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moog · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject: wow..purty steep

yea, that is sorta expensive for the PS3...but again, its getting packed with a lot of stuff...

id rather just save that cash and get a better pc

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loka · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject:

Sorry best controller ever made for shooter games was the 64 controller....ahhh golden eye was fun.
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Simpleman · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 3:19 pm Post subject:

Yup I agree the 64 controloer was the best followed Atari 2600 ( less button

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