Playstation3 is a Steal?

mjmcneese

mjmcneese

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Maybe I'm going crazy...

The PS3 is $500-600, right? Ridiculous price for a game console.

BUT, it plays Blu-ray Discs, no? The cheapest Blu-ray player I can find is still around $1000. So, does that not make the new PS3 a heck of a deal?
 
It's only a bargain because if you can get one at $600 tomorrow you can flip it on Ebay for $1900. Insane, but if you can score 2-3 of them... well then.

Then again, I don't play video games
 
It'd be a bargain only if you were gung-ho to torch $1,000 on a blu-ray player. If you were the first guy on the block to buy a LaserDisc, then this might seem like a great deal.

Apparently you can buy the $200 HD-DVD add-on for the XBOX 360 and adapt it to run on a Windows PC and have a fully-functional high-def player, so $600 for a PS3? Buy it for what it is, if that's what you want...

Regular DVD players are down to $30. blu-ray players for $1000? Don't count on 'em sticking at that price point for very long! I think it's pretty doubtful that many consumers will look at it and say "why yes, I'd like to spend 33x as much".
 
Barry_Green said:
I think it's pretty doubtful that many consumers will look at it and say "why yes, I'd like to spend 33x as much".
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Especially when you consider that the format might not catch on and you could be stuck with the BetaMax of the 21st century.:)
 
I'm not getting either I'm perfectly happy with my NES emulator. But if I had to go out tomorrow and get a Blu-ray player...
 
They all do the same thing. It's great because 2600 controllers can be hard to come by these days.:beer:
 
Latest news is that the PS3 isn't fully backwards compatible; some existing games won't play at all on it, some only work partially, some sort of work and then lock up. Sony really, really needs to get this one right, and it ain't looking like any sort of slam dunk. On the plus side, the Japanese customers have been snatching it up, so maybe they'll pull the rabbit out of the hat after all.
 
Sony is selling the PS3 at a loss. It's reported that it costs them more than $800 us to make largely due to the extremely expensive third-party Blue Ray player. So yes, if you're buying the PS3 for it's Blue Ray capabilities it is a steal because you get sponsorship from the Big Wigs over at Sony.

remains to be seen if the format will stick tho. As far as I know the onlo people who still use Laser Disc are asian Karaoke enthusiasts.

mor10
 
Looks like the geeks over at Gizmodo.com agree with me. Here's a complete rundown of the production cost of the PS3 and proof that Sony is indeed selling the machines at a substantial loss:

"The premium model costs $840.35 to make (Which sells at a loss for $600.)"

The whole story

mor10
*still not buying a PS3 but maybe a 360 after christmas when the prices drop*
 
I just went over to Best Buy to pick up some CD-Rs. There were 12 tents parked in front of the store. At first I thought, 'What a bunch of losers.' But seeing as how many of them are going to be listing their new PS3 on eBay and making a few hundred bucks off of it, made me kind of wish I had nothing better to do tonight.
 
Yes this may be true, but I think Sony is not thinking about short term basis, think about how long Sony PS3 Will be around, in that time, initially they will sell at a loss, BUT as time increases these 3rd party componets will drop in price eventually it turns the other way round, NEXT a console is not much good with out games, so even if you are selling at a loss, the games revenue can bridge that gap. The Games industry is Huge.

Its like printers, the manufactures make more on the consumables than the actual price of the printer (thats why they are so damn cheap these days) and they have contracts with major outlets stopping them from stocking 3rd party Ink!

Anyway Its Sonys Headache.
 
If you are a gamer the price is irrelivant. There are not that many options. You are either going to buy it or not. Price is after.

And is it a real surprise to anyone that this thing will have problems? They're rushing it out. It's a serious piece of tech to generate HD graphics in real time.

The gamers have been camped out for days in toronto.
-rook
 
I think that one's a joke, some punk bidding crazy. But I have seen a lot going in the area of $2500. My buddy get's 2 of 'em tomorrow...we'll see what he gets for them.

-Kevin
 
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