How much are you willing to pay for a PS3 at launch?

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Considering all factors, how much would you be willing to shell out for a PS3 on launch day?

The 360 is available now...cheaper (most likely)
The Rev will be coming out about the same time...probably...and definitely much cheaper.

that' s a lot of choices.

We all know sony will deliver the games. That' s how they got to be #1 and they aren' t stopping anytime soon.

Personally, the more i consider my options this winter, the blurrier that image of a day 1 PS3 in my living room becomes.


then again, i might be asking the wrong group....

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Well it all depends on what time you buy it, i am not going to buy one at launch [as i would be ripped off] but after one or two months, or more, i would expect to pick one up easily for about the 400 [euros] mark. thats with controller, hard drive, everything. And for what your getting i think its a resonable price. Remember the 360 at luanch with the premium package with all the extras and a few games cost upwards of 600 euros. I would never pay that!

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

after one or two months, or more, i would expect to pick one up easily for about the 400 [euros] mark

Are you just trying to be funny?!

400 Euros works out at £277. With a wireless controller and HDD?! That' s nothing but a pipedream!

Sony would NEVER take that much of a loss on every console. That would not only be more than Microsoft lose on either of their consoles, but it would be the biggest loss any company has ever taken for ANY console.

You should be looking at the component prices for the machine (and bear in mind that even the component prices aren' t the total cost of production, because labour isn' t included).

A single 360 costs Microsoft $513-ish to produce, and PS3' s components are more expensive meaning the cost of production will be higher for Sony. The component cost fo a single PS3 is about $800 (some have estimated as much as $905).

So if Sony launched at $450, they would still lose around $350 on every machine sold. That' s NEVER going to happen because Sony simply don' t have the guts to take such a risk. They' re bettng pretty much everything they have on Blu-Ray being a success.

The PS3' s Blu-Ray drive alone adds $200+ to the price of production and CELL isn' t cheap to produce either.

I know what you' re saying about getting it on day 1 and getting ripped off, ...usually by the shop only selling the machine in custom packages (with a selection of games and extras etc...), but launching so cheap would be shooting themselves in the foot.

I only wish it was possible because i DO plan on getting one at launch...

I' ll pay whatever Sony' s charging. If they want 2 mules and a donkey then I' ll raid a farm and get them two mules and a donkey.

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

Because you want Gradius!

If they have VF5 at launch, i' ll pay up to around £800...

$6,500! The more the better. I hope Sony reads my post and realizes that people will pay ANY PRICE because it is PlayStation. U R NOT E

Because you want Gradius!

You dammm right!


In addition, regardless of development costs, the PS3 is bound to have CRAZY 3rd party support and that means more 2D shooters, platformers, and niche games.

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

600 dollar i guess?
But i wont buy it at the release.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

I' ll pass, thanks.

Anything more than 100$ i wouldnt buy it at launch, so i guess i wont get it at launch! There are more 360 games that id rather get than spend money on having to pay some of KK' s paycheck!

Yeah same here,i rather buy a ps3 mid 2007 or something,why? cause if those NR specc are true its basically like an xbox....no thanks.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

You' re not going to get a Revolution because on raw power it' s not much superior to an Xbox?!

You' re missing the entire point!

If I was going to buy a ps3 at launch I would probably be looking at paying at least 550-600 canadian, but like some of you here I will probably wait until next year sometime to buy a ps3, I think I can live with my 360 and my N5 when it is launched, definately going to have to buy an N5 at launch.

You' re not going to get a Revolution because on raw power it' s not much superior to an Xbox?!

You' re missing the entire point!

Well not exactly missing the point, since there are more similarities between PS3 and 360, revolution is like something different, Nintendo in itself is something different, as they have good IP' s.

Ohh wait something sony has that too :)

Yeah,i know that the controller is the new thing,but for me its just a way to get pr,it doesnt look fun at all for me,i want a real normal control,not some crazy stuff like nintendo use.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

If i buy a PS3 i will wait until the prices goes down to 2 thirds or maybe half...as long as i have an xbox, pc, dreamcast, mega drive, snes, saturn and a revolution i can wait

It all depends on the developer support for me. If Sony have mucked it up with the devs this time round, then it wont be worth anything for me. BluRay isn' t that appealing to me either at the moment, especially since it' ll cost so much to implement for us and the industry.. [:' (]

I can' t wait for Revolution. Many people are happy with the limited range of games that are available now, but the whole idea of the new controller is to open up gaming to new ideas, new players and more freedom of expression.

That' s what I think now anyway. After E3, I' ll be able to say for sure on PS3 and Rev I guess...

400 Euros works out at £277. With a wireless controller and HDD?! That' s nothing but a pipedream!

I never said I was buying one at launch. Anyway, if you know where to look and not run into your local Game, you would be surprized how much you' d save. But that involves waiting..

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

I' m willing to pay as much as I did for the 360 Premium. However I probably won' t get one at launch. I don' t even have time to play the worthy games on 360.

Speaking of worthy games on 360, why the fuck can' t I find DW5? I even took the bus to Ottawa (capital) to check an EB games there, they said April. WTF? April!? its supposed to be out since the 28th of this month. Have you guys noticed that they' ve been stingy about release dates lately. Before when a certain day was the release date then any and every store that sold new videogames had the game on shelves that very morning. Now shit, I had to spend 4 days looking for Oblivion after it was released before I found a copy. I' m still looking for my copy of DW5. Is it because the 360 is a new console or is this happening with other platforms?

I guess I went off topic there but fuck this is pissing me off. Its not that I' m impatient its that I' m tired of running around like a jackass looking for one god damn game. It wouldn' t be so bad if I knew when I could find the bloody thing.

same happened for me with GRAW, impossible to find!

Well not exactly missing the point, since there are more similarities between PS3 and 360, revolution is like something different, Nintendo in itself is something different, as they have good IP' s.

Ohh wait something sony has that too :)

Now you' re juust missing MY point.

The system specs don' t mean shit right now because people have seemingly forgotten that Nintendo have had ATi custom build a chip specifically for use with Nintendo' s own displacement mapping technology. Similar to the displacement mapping that made the Gamecubes version of Resident Evil 4 look soooooooo impressive (after you bear in mind that Gamecube' s poly threshold was actually lower than PS2' s).

Revolution games will look just as good as any 360 game out now, including GRAW. Nintendo have just been very smart about how they' ve approached it and suffice to say, the people that feel a little let down by the specs will have a nice suprise when they see stuff running on the machine. I' ve been right so far so just trust me on this.

Oh, and because of the way Nintendo have put everything together, including the controller (which you haven' t seen all of yet), 3rd party compaines have had nothing but really good thinks to say about them.

Yeah,i know that the controller is the new thing,but for me its just a way to get pr,it doesnt look fun at all for me,i want a real normal control,not some crazy stuff like nintendo use.

Well i suggest you just wait and see what happens at E3. Oh, and remember that they will be having a standard shell that the remote plugs into so it can act like the kind of controller you want.

BluRay isn' t that appealing to me either at the moment, especially since it' ll cost so much to implement for us and the industry..

What WILL be interesting is to see what PS3' s game prices are. Blu-ray adds to development costs so it' s viable they' ll increase it by another $10 over the $60 360 games. It' s the exact reason that N64 games were so expensive.

I never said I was buying one at launch. Anyway, if you know where to look and not run into your local Game, you would be surprized how much you' d save. But that involves waiting..

Ok, but you get my point!

Err, do you buy stolen consoles?

Hmmm, exactly what i thought.... a whole lot of wait till next year.

It will be interesting to see what the preorder numbers look like.

Its going to sell out, just like the 360 and with a worldwide launch, supply is going to be thin for a few months, So if your going to want one at lauch, PREORDER IT now!

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

.....the majority of people who want Playstation 3 will buy it regardless.....

...just like they would with any ipod, plasma tv, designer label, watch etc...

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$400 at christmas. (So I don' t get flipped over by the darn bugs)

I' m a " buy one at launch" type of guy, but I don' t know. Lately I' ve been kinda down in the dumps over the whole HD-DVD/Blu-ray DRM copyright scam that' s being perpatrated by the Hollywood studios. I SWEAR, if I get an HD-DVD player or a PS3 and the HD movies won' t play on my high def tvs, I will take those sons-o-bitches back to the store, and not even blink! Fuck-em!

Other than that, I' d be willing to spend up to $600 for a PS3. I think that is very reasonable, even for just the Blu-ray aspect alone. Once I get some games, movies, and accesories, it would probably be over a grand, but I wouldn' t mind.

40/7 is not an integer. So a grand isn' t reasonable unless your game library sux and your accessories are insanely uber and conform to the standards of a guy that' s half past insanity and halfway to the end of the line, pal, you know, the sun is out, but I gots lots of thoughts. I gots lots and lots of thoughts and that' s why, that is, it is why I decided that HAHAHAHAHAHA... >_> Owned. (That you should not be alive anymore, but I will not kill you, not yet [I would say MuAh***** but I can' t do that because I' m explaining HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)] <<<<notice the proper parentheses XD

Kickass I want to know what type of drugs you' re taking and how I could get some.

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Y' know, i' d block your posts, except for the simple fact that they are so completely shameful, and suprisingly, mildly amusing in a very Jhonen Vasquez sort of way.

Although, with a post like that, you' ve got one thing going for you, you could post on any forum on earth...
AND EVERYONE WOULD THINK YOU WERE A TOTAL FOOL THERE TOO!

Eddie who are you speaking to? I read the previous posts in this thread and it could be anyone.

sorry, i left the window open & you posted before i got around to it,

I was talking about kickass331.

i' m looking for the correlation between his last post, and any of the other posts made on this site. Anywhere... on this site. heck, i' m still trying to find the correlation between the sentences IN the post, no less comparing it to anyone else.

Pal, you know, the sun is out, but I gots lots of thoughts. I gots lots and lots of thoughts and that' s why, that is, it is why I decided that HAHAHAHAHAHA... >_> Owned.

yeah... words fail me, and apparently they fail you too.