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  Final Blade | June 20, 2007
  I saw this b4 but didnt have time to post it. I think its true, i mean i have been saying for awhile that the price is a bargan. Since it takes more than $800 dollars to make.
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  huntyr | June 20, 2007
  hmm, when I read this, it sounds like he is saying the price needs to be cut if they want to compete in the mass market.
  
  If the goal of the PS3 is to be a high-end system that not everyone can afford, then yes: sony has priced it just fine (but not a bargin)
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    Final Blade | June 21, 2007
    Its saying that the current price is actually a bargin considering it cost more than $800 dollars to make. And what it says that price is the right one. However, they did say a price cut will help get more ppl to buy it.
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  Storm | June 21, 2007
  Of course it does have the right price...it's just not the right time. The PS3 will pick up speed soon, imo, by next year it should...but kids just don't want to get ahold of this deal. I gotta admit, though, I don't want to get one yet, either. Most likely by the time MGS4 is released.
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  Zhou Tai Rocks | June 21, 2007
  
  I agree, just give the system some time, and it will skyrocket. I believe it will even pass the Wii sales at some point. Hopefully that will be soon. I am tempted to say it will drop if the sales do not increase
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  bbb7002004 | June 21, 2007
  The PS3 has the right price for all of the tech. built in.
  It doesn't have the right price to be a mass market video game console.
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    Benk_92 | June 21, 2007
    Couldn't have said it better myself.
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    Final Blade | June 21, 2007
    Thats what i said and you ppl give me a 2 thumbs down. anyway why dont you guys save your money and get the ps3. I did its not hard.
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    Seeker X | June 21, 2007
    Well it's not like it's gonna tone down the price just because it's not right for a game console. The Wii should lower ITS price if that was the case, seeing as the PS3 is a bundle by itself already.
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  Infinite | June 21, 2007
  Were as the PS3 is at a good price for what the system is, it's still costs a lot of money in my opinion. I'm waiting for a price drop before I get a PS3. Either that or I'll wait until I'm 16 and can get a job. Then I'll get a PS3. But for now the PS3 just costs too much for me to get one.
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    Final Blade | June 23, 2007
    Question How old are you? Cause If you guys were as loyal to sony and a game player you would save money. Cause unlike some of you i actually find a way to get it.
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  Existenz | June 21, 2007
  Hang on it was only like 6 months ago that Ubisoft were basically bashing the Playstation 3 saying it was too expensive and if it stayed at $600 Sony would be losing alot of their game support, now they are praising the price? Make up your minds Ubi!
  
  PS. Maybe this means Splinter Cell: Conviction will make its way to the Playstation 3 eventually
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    Zhou Tai Rocks | June 21, 2007
    
    I was thinking that two. All I can think of is that they do have a game going to the PS3, or they just had a complete change of heart with the entire ordeal.
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  Gary15 | June 21, 2007
  I think most consumers would disagree, it doesn't really matter if it had a built in time machine it's still out of the price range of a lot of it's possible customer base which can only hurt sales and profits at the end of the day. I'm the only one of my friends who has one and the thing I hear again and again is "I want one but it's too much money for me to spend". A lot of them ended up going for the 360 or wii instead because of price issues.
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  Rinkydink | June 21, 2007
  It's a shame that the price is such a large factor for Sony, but yes I agree that a price cut is absolutely necessary in order to reach out to more people and gain back the sales they have missed out on.
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  Jeterocks | June 21, 2007
  Well, It sure is nice to see some publishers like the Ps3's price point. When I bought it, I had no regret for the price, I knew what i was getting and I knew what I was getting was a good deal on the tech aspect.
  
  But I am not stupid, and I know for a parent out there looking to pay $600 for a system that they don't understand why its better than the 360 or Wii, it can seem like a silly purchase. Hell, why do you think I (the 16 year old kid) had to buy the Ps3 instead of having my mom buy it for me...she refused to pay the price
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  000DESTRUCT0 | June 21, 2007
  I understand people not wanting to pay so much for a console, I wouldn't either, but if you really know your stuff when it comes to computer technology and electronics in general, then you would know that $600 is a great deal for the hardware that's in the PS3. It really is a bargain.
  
  My only complaint against the PS3 is the same one I have against the 360. They have DirectX 9 hardware so when DirectX 10 is released, PC games are going to start being made for it. That means that the 360 and PS3 will both be obsolete overnight, making both of them a waste of money. I plan on buying a PS3, but only because some games I want will only be on it and not ported to Windows or Linux. To reiterate: the PS3's price is a great deal for the hardware that's in it. It's just going to be obsolete soon, along with the 360.
  
  Finalblade98 was correct when he said it was a bargain considering how much it costs to produce. Sure, Sony gets its hardware at wholesale prices, but it won't offset the cost enough to keep it as cheap as the 360 or Wii.
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    000DESTRUCT0 | June 21, 2007
    I understand people not wanting to pay so much for a console, I wouldn't either, but if you really know your stuff when it comes to computer technology and electronics in general, then you would know that $600 is a great deal for the hardware that's in the PS3. It really is a bargain.
    
    My only complaint against the PS3 is the same one I have against the 360. They have DirectX 9 hardware so when DirectX 10 is released, PC games are going to start being made for it. That means that the 360 and PS3 will both be obsolete overnight, making both of them a waste of money. I plan on buying a PS3, but only because some games I want will only be on it and not ported to Windows or Linux. To reiterate: the PS3's price is a great deal for the hardware that's in it. It's just going to be obsolete soon, along with the 360, but I can't blame people for not wanting to spend so much on what is essentially a non-scalable computer.
    
    Finalblade98 was correct when he said it was a bargain considering how much it costs to produce. Sure, Sony gets its hardware at wholesale prices, but it won't offset the cost enough to keep it as cheap as the 360 or Wii.
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  KingX2 | June 21, 2007
  The PS3 has so much stuff packed into it, $600 no doubt is a good price. Even though some people prefer their systems to be cheaper, lets not forget the PS2, which was around the same price when it made its debut. $600 seems like a fair trade off to me.
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  bbb7002004 | June 21, 2007
  From what I remember, PS2 premiered at half that price, $300 USD.
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  Wookie King | June 22, 2007
  I agree with King_X2. It has so much hardware in it it's a bargain.
  But I feel like the guys who went out and got it for 600 bucks feel shafted if what ubisoft said was a good plan.
  
  Sure just let all the hardcore gamers waste money on it then lower prices after all of them have petered out.
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  Final Blade | June 23, 2007
  Listen i know some of you will start to wonder when the price goes down. Why did i buy it earlier. Well the ps3 has so much to offer. Sure it doesnt have alot of games. But you can use it for other stuff as well. 000DESTRUCT0 im sorry but your kind of mistaken on that, how will both be obsolete. Apparently you dont understand how much GB hardware you need to play those type of games on PC. I know some things about PC and i honestly know what your saying doesnt add up. First off Not everyone has a PC that is for gaming. And most good games cost more than the ps3 and xbox games. So they wont be obsolete as you may think. I know you know about PCs but i fully disagree with what you said. As far as im concered those systems will never be matched by PC ever!
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    000DESTRUCT0 | June 23, 2007
    First of all, could a mod or somebody please delete my first post? I made a slight edit to it and it posted the edit as a second post. It won't let me delete the first one either.
    
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    As far as im concered those systems will never be matched by PC ever!

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but what I got from that is you are saying the PS3 and 360 are the pinnacle of computer technology and the technology can't be improved upon. That's BS; and by that logic(which people have used in the past), my computer isn't as powerful as the PS1. I assure you that it's far greater than the PS1. Newer, better technology has already been invented and is scheduled for released/has been released since those two consoles have debuted.
    
    

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    I know some things about PC and i honestly know what your saying doesnt add up. First off Not everyone has a PC that is for gaming.

    Oh, but it does. 1+1 does in fact equal 0 here.
    Maybe you can wrap you mind around this easier, they will be archaic overnight, but obsolete soon after as far as the technology is concerned, the only exception being the Blu-Ray player. As far as the 360 is concerned, it won't be able to use DirectX 10 features. You won't even be able to download it and install it. The only hardware compatible with Direct3D 10 is the NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series they just released and the ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series, which they also just released. The 360 is stuck the way it is, it will never improve with the times. It's hardware just won't allow the advances that have already been made.
    Some companies are even shafting the 360 by only putting some of their games on the PC for this very reason: Link
    
    It's not that the machine lacks all the necessary power, it just can't interpret the data like it's meant to.
    
    

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    "From what we're hearing, Crysis will support DX9 with some sort of use for DX10 features. It's likely that those DX10 visuals can be replicated on the Xbox360, but it can't be properly called DX10."
    
    There's no reason Crysis can't appear on Xbox 360 (even Crytek themselves have discussed the possibility, even if it's not in production just yet); all of its public appearances have been running on DirectX 9. With a little bit of optimization, a console port seems in reach.

    You see? It can run on the consoles, but they have to scale the games back a bit. It's like running Oblivion on a computer with a single-core processor, a GeForce 6600, and 512Mb of RAM. It's possible, but the cool stuff that makes it unique have to go before you can do it.
    
    As far as people not being able to afford computers to run the stuff goes, I compared the price of a customized Dell Optiplex on their website to one I "built" by finding comparable hardware on Newegg. They ended up having the same processors, the same amount of RAM, the same GPUs, etc. But the Dell cost about $1,000 USD more. By building a computer, which only requires that you be able to follow instructions written for somebody with the IQ of "dumbass,"(i.e: Place this here, fasten this here, etc. with full color pictures as well as extensive text explanations.) will save an assload of money. In addition, when the stuff they have is obsolete or at least overly archaic, they can cheaply replace the component in question rather than buy a whole new system.
    
    I currently have plans to get 2 Radeon HD 2900s in CrossFire, 2 more gigs of RAM(I already have 2), Vista when Service Pack 1 is released, and I might replace my processor, I'm not sure about that yet. After doing so, the PS3 wouldn't stand a chance in hell against my system. And with overclocking options and the ability to modify games' .ini files, I can simultaneously increase graphics quality drastically while cutting down strain on my hardware.