Next gen rant thread

[Cap'n 1time]

[QUOTE=JmanUmmKay]

BTW Kaiser no offence just showing the facts. I like the PS3 and i will get eventually i have just been tryin to explain to you why people have been complaining about it.

GASP! he dares to question the godly staff! ban him!!!

[stotheamuel]

jman.... no he converted it himself... trust me


and i dont even wanna mention austrailia's pricing (shiver)

[Dull Blade]

Perhaps the PS3 will be the next neo geo. Look at it this way, it is byfar the most powerful, it thechnology is ahead of its time (blue ray disk) and it will cost more than I make in 4 months (I'm 15). i will personally get the 360 or the wii

[Cap'n 1time]

its not cool enough to be the next neogeo.

anyway i say **** the new disk formats, dvd's are still going to be around as long as we have average TV's. personally i would rather have a nice set of surround sound speakers and a decent, but average TV then some HDTV thats going to die in 5 or 6 years. **** hdvd, blu ray, and HDTV's. They are all unnessicary at the time being.. DVD's AND 5.1 SURROUND SOUND FOREVER!

[Kaiser]

US residents do NOT have the right to whine about the price. They are getting their consoles for the lowest prices. And if they can't afford to buy it at launch, wait half a year to get a better deal. That's how it's always been and how it will always be with new technology. Early adopters pay the highest price, live with it.

I can't stand how all the US people are complaining at their price, while european gamers have to pay 25% more simply because $ony has never heard of conversion rates, UK gamers are getting screwed even more.

Just as a wakeup call, US pays respectively 500 or 600 bucks for exactly the same console where we have to pay 625 / 750. That's what pisses me off seriously.

Excellent, Summed up my point perfectly. I completely agree.

Not to mention the curency is different in different countries your 625/ 750 is Probably worth the amount of 500/600 in the US.

Do you know how exchange rates work? You must understand we work just as hard for our money as yours. We aren't payed anymore to compensate the weaker currency. Therefore it is worse for us. The point has been since the very beginning that Americans have no right to complain that 500 dollars is to much. Since we've been paying that amount for ages.

GASP! he dares to question the godly staff! ban him!!!

My finger is on the button!

[V3N0M]

LOL ok, i see your point (Says to self)-(please don't ban me, Please don't ban me) lol Ya i know how things work and understand that if it suks for me it is even worse for you as most other countries have to pay more. Personaly i'm going to get all three of them eventually. I'll probaly get the Xbox 360 first then a Wii and then a PS3. I usually try to wait a year after they come out so all the bugs will be fixed altho i don't usually wait that long. I know Microsoft has a nasty habbit of releaseing things before they fix all the bugs.

[V3N0M]

Hey Kaiser ya know whats funny i'm enjoying this descussion its good to talk to someone with a different opinion about things. In a way it helps shape my own opinion. Ya know see different a side of things. Well back to the arguement. lol

[shadowprophet]

Im just gonna say it since jman wont lol
Yeah weve got the right to complain.

And kaiser your missing the point.
Do you honestly for a seconed think that if the ps3 goes up to $600 here your gonna get a ps3 for 600 in canada?
Take what you have been saying and apply it to the reality of whats happening,
The ps3 is gonna be really expensive in canada
according to the prices you guys claim you paied for a ps2 which was 299 here at the very most.
compared to your 500 dollars?
acording to your very own logic the ps3 should break a grand in canada. and you tell me?! that isnt to much for a ps3? if any canadian person in this room can tell me a grand isnt to0 much for a ps3. then there are serval things that need to change. first of which canada needs better schools to teach people the value of freaken money!!
And yeah, im well awear of my math on the ps3,
the freaking thing wont do you any good without a game...
and acording to you guys games for the ps3 in canada will be well over 100 bucks a pop.

[V3N0M]

Ya and stop spending it on Medicare lol. So people wont run up to canada to get all fixed up for cheap lol. Btw I was going to say that shadow but... Dam Staff and their curropt power lol.b But yes i agree with you. Finaly Someone agrees with me lol.

[Cid Highwind]

I recently saw some statistics on the prices of the PS2 at launch, just FYI:

PlayStation 2 prices
US: $299
Japan: $360
Germany: $403
France: $414
UK: $450
Netherlands: 1200Guilders -> €540 -> $680 (according to current rate, back then the euro was worth just as much as the dollar or slightly less, making it cost somewhere between $500 and $550)

@ JmanUmmKay: Yes I only read the first and second post, and then added my own little rant about how I feel on this gen's pricings. So it wasn't aimed directly at you. And about the currencies, I think you can buy a helluva lot gas more for a $ in the US than you can buy for a € in the Netherlands, maybe even double, or more.

And if these data from the BBC site indicate how much a person can spend in a year averagely I don't see a reason why the US should have lower prices.

GNI per capita: US $31,700 (World Bank, 2005) (Netherlands)
GNI per capita: US $41,440 (World Bank, 2006) (USA)

Don't get me wrong, I still think that if one finds it too expensive he shouldn't buy it, however it's sad to see how $ony is using the Euro to make more profit and acts as if it is worth just as much as the Dollar, which it hasn't been in ages.

And even though it might look expensive, even here in Europe one can not argue he still gets a lot for what he pays for, a PC with the same capabilities costs a lot more

It's become somewhat of a no brainer that computer stuff is a lot cheaper in the US, usually 25% or more. A scottish friend of mine is thinking of getting the US premium version for $600 simply because he can get the console and 2 games for the same price as just the bare premium version in his country.

Btw, waiting for revised version of a console is a wise thing to do, it's not only Microsoft who's got a bad reputation