Hmm, that wasn't on a Sony website, so according to everybody else (Everybody that isn't me) so it must not me true right?... lol, anybody?
Hmm, that wasn't on a Sony website, so according to everybody else (Everybody that isn't me) so it must not me true right?... lol, anybody?
And yet again Joel makes things up.
Your article came from a BLOG. It cited "the word in Japan" according to some other, non-official website.
The article Yams posted cites SONY.
And you seriously think they should be given equal weight?
EDIT: that article even mentions the official Sony website preorder costs.
This may make me seriously reconsider buying the PS3. 100$ games! That's just way too much. I'd rather they make the console itself a high price and lower the new game cost to at least 60$ (lower would be even better) but 100$! 100$! 100$!! 100$!!!
I'm really seriously reconsidering here.
No, the website is wrong because the website it smurfing cites has completely different prices, than what it says. The fact that the article it refrences is wrong doesn't even have to come into play, but it helps.
This is so incredibly smurfed up. At $100 dollars per game I'll never be able to move out!
Some of you guys need to bone up on your reading comprehension.
Official Sony store listing PS3 prices.
That article is from June.
What's your point? They could change things at any time. Microsoft eventually increased the price of first-party games for the Xbox 360, after all.
Seeing that they've listed pre-order prices at the $60 mark means something. Furthermore, Sony does not have to compete with Microsoft in Japan, the U.S. is another story. If they price out of range in relation to the 360's $60 third-party title they'd be losing many potential customers. People here will not pay $80 or $90 for a game.
I'd like to think people wouldn't pay six hundred dollars for a video game console, either.
People will pay a premium for hardware. Not so much for software.
$60 is stretching it already. Closer to $100 and you're no longer mass entertainment. Again, though, Japan (and Europe to a certain extent) is a whole different set of rules. We're cheap bastards here.
When will they learn?
I parted with my cash for the PsOne, and I parted with my cash for the PS2, but I just cannot afford that sort of money. Both the console and its games are far too expensive for my budget. :/
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Well, since I've been in Japan, I've really fallen in love with Virtua Fighter 5. I would love to bring an arcade machine to Bermuda so I could play it without having to fly all the way back to Japan, but apparently the machine itself costs $40,000.
Considering I can get a PS3, plus the game and the Arcade stick for maybe $800 max, that's a good deal for me.
Still, I think Sony is in a position of arrogance similar to Nintendo several years ago. They know that they are on top, and they think they can go along unchallenged. We've seen what happened with Nintendo, I wonder if history will reverse itself.
Still, I don't agree with how Sony is attempting to force a souped up PSX down our throats. They could have taken out some of the extra stuff to make it much more affordable for themselves and the general consumer.
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