Glad to hear it. I don't have any of the new consoles yet, but I plan to get a 360 and Wii. Over five years of play, I'm sure each of the three consoles are worth their launch prices... not that I'd pay it.Originally Posted by ElCapitan
360 is worth every penny. I don't care what anyone says, I'd gladly pay $400 for the 360 again.
Neo-Geo SuperGrafx Forever!
Glad to hear it. I don't have any of the new consoles yet, but I plan to get a 360 and Wii. Over five years of play, I'm sure each of the three consoles are worth their launch prices... not that I'd pay it.
No gnus is good gnus.
Um I don't think that's how competition works - it helps to keep prices down and the quality of goods up.
If it weren't for Sony, the 360 would probably be $500 and Nintendo would have just released the Gamecube two weeks ago.
If all I'm going to be offered are the same ROMs that have been on the web for free for years, then yes, Nintendo can go fuck itself.
I for one, haven't bought anything VC-related and don't plan to if things stay as they are.Then "we" need to stop paying $5-10 for roms and emulators. It's silly to cry about the poor service "we" are getting as "we" keep paying for it.
This is it in a nutshell. Give me a reason to get excited about VC and I will. As it is, it does nothing that GameTap doesn't do better, and the prices are outrageous.
If not for Sony, I'd be buying Dreamcast games.
Cyrax Wins
But sony is losing money on the ps3 so in that respect it is not over priced at all. And MS breaks even or just started making a profit so the 360 isn't overpriced either. The point is the 250 you are spending isn't getting you what it should like the others.
master of the dark hado
99% of all things you will ever buy in your life cost less to make then what you are charged for them. Shocking I know.
Cyrax Wins
But that isn't the case here is it? I see no reason why nintendo shouldn't be put up to the standards of the others. You get your moneys worth tech wise and then some with the others, but not the wii.
master of the dark hado
Because different companies have different business models. It isn't like Nintendo is making 150 bucks on every wii, from what analysts have said they're probably making 10 - 20 bucks on each Wii. Much like they did with the GC. That's purely from a manufacturing stand point though and doesn't take into account RnD, which obviously they did an assload of in developing the new controller. Who cares if they do something different anyway, you don't like it then don't buy it. I for one would be very pissed off if every console this generation cost 400 - 600 bucks. I enjoy video games but not for that much money. Who knows maybe a lot of people agree with me maybe a lot don't we won't know for another year or so. Besides the fact that as others have stated in other threads they shouldn't be held to the same "standards" because they are a very different company. Microsoft has many different divisions, so that if the 360 isn't making them any kind of profit , it's ok because they have other divisions that are bringing in profits. Same with Sony, Videogames isn't the only thing Sony does, they have their movies, they have their electronics department, all kinds of other shit. Nintendo on the other hand ONLY does video games. The Wii has to be profitable in someway shape or form right out the gate. I highly doubt you'd be seeing a 500 - 600 dollar PS3 if the only thing Sony did was video games. Nor would you be seeing the same 360 you're seeing if MS was only a video game company. Shit just thinking about that there's also the goals of the companies, MS and Sony are looking to take over your home entertainment area. They want their systems to be what you do everything on, watch movies, play games, listen to music, they want it all done on their boxes. It's the whole convergence thing, you take blu-ray out of the PS3 and the system would probably be in the 300 - 500 dollar range easily. I don't need my Video game system to play HD movies, and BluRay is a waste for games right now, so why is Sony not giving me a choice. I'd love for the PS3 and 360 were more video game focused and less Multi media focused. Personally I wish the other companies were held to Nintendo's "standards". How many revisions of the PS2 were they're before they went to the Slim Line model, a good 10 or more. Because Sony decided to work some bugs out after the system shipped as opposed to before. Look at all the problems people had with the PS, PS2, PSP, and hell even the launch 360s. Why aren't they held to the same standards of hardware quality control that Nintendo is? Every company has different things they focus on, there really is no need for all 3 to be exactly the same, the video game industry is large enough to support some systems taking a different path. I mean really some of you act like Nintendo is stealing money from your wallet, get over yourselves and get the sand out of your vagina's already.
"Personally I wish the other companies were held to Nintendo's "standards". "
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Actually, that's a good point. I'd like to see every game that got made get a 9 or 10 because it did everything another game did 10 years ago and nothing more. On seconds thought, if every dev did that, games would be sucky ;( Thank god for other companies.
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