Loading ...How are people still saying the PS3 is too expensive? The $100 price cut bumped the Amazon sales rank on the 60GB unit up 2800%. I don’t think people understand what they are getting with the PS3, and that’s why they think it’s “expensive”. Let’s have a look:
- Blu-ray Player (Currently the cheapest one is around $600)
- PS1 ($99? - Including 1080p upscaling and smoothing)
- PS2 ($150? - Including 1080p upscaling and smoothing)
- DLNA (UPnP A/V) Media Client ($199?)
- Decent Upscaling 1080p DVD Player ($150)
- Total: 600 + 99 + 150 + 199 + 150 = $1198
So you are looking at approximately $1200 worth of equipment if you wanted to buy it separately assuming that you could purchase a “game only” version of the PS3 that had none of the other features.
I’ve personally been using the upscaling DVD, PS2 (God of War baby!), Blu-ray (a lot) and PS3-gaming features of the PS3… it looks a lot sharper than my XBox, the 1080p games are real and not just upscaled and the functionality is a welcome addition to make the PS3 a true media hub.
The 360 has some of these features, with a 33% failure rate and no where near the format support (HD-DVD is an extra $200) or backward compatability for $100 cheaper… how the hell can Sony be getting burned for the price of the PS3 when the XBox 360 barely does anything more than play games and people don’t complain about it’s lack of features?
Kanomi’s main man complains that for $500 you can buy a personal computer… of course you can, but it can’t do anything the PS3 can do. Go ahead, go buy a $500 computer and let me know how any game runs on it, how the Blu-ray movies you can’t play look on it, how the PS1 and PS2 games you cannot play either look on it, and how the non-upscaling DVD player looks on your free 15″ monitor that came with it.
What an idiot…
I’m going to 1-up him and complain how the Honda Accord is a hell of a lot cheaper than a $1 million dollar Bugatti Veyron
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July 10th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Still doesn’t have jack for games. and I already have a PS2. Don’t need a Blu-Ray player because I don’t own blu-ray disks and i’m not gonna re-purchase 200+ DVD’s. So for the people that have ton’s of money to burn knock yourself out. I don’t think it’s a bad system but I don’t want all the stuff this is packaged as.
July 10th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Ryan, valid points, but a few comments:
0) I agree that the game situation on the PS3 is balls… Sony stopped paying for exclusives (at the same moment Microsoft started to pay for them) so the tables FLOPPED to the Microsoft side. Hopefully these 3rd party titles in Q4 and 2008 will make the PS3-games situation stop being so stale.
1) Your PS2 won’t upscale to 1080p or smooth your games. While I agree the importance of this is variable depending on the gamer, it counts for *something*.
2) Unless you bought a Oppo or high end Denon/Sony I doubt your DVD player upscales to 1080p either and no one would encourage you to re-buy your movies, total waste of money. But I would point out that *moving forward* you would certainly be able to buy new movies in an HD format, or just rent them from BB or Netflix.
Then again if you don’t have a HD set, the points above are totally moot
July 16th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
I agree with Ryan, I have a PS2 and don’t plan to purchase a PS3.