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As a lot of gaming companys have noticed that gaming attracts money to there buisness. And that if they make a succseful game money will come rolling in!
But sometimes it goes to far. I think putting a game console at £300 is ridiclous. This is only going to put people off buying a PS2, If they started the PS2 off at £200, many more people would of bought one.
I dont think PS2 has had a very sucsseful start in England, first it is far to expensive for people to afford and also there were hardly any in the country.
For a console to have a good futre it has to have a good start, this is proven with the PSX. That has to be the most succesful console at this time, it even beat off the DC which is a newer and with a better memory and speed, but again people setteld with there cheap, but brilliant PSX. Where every ounce of polygon and memory has been used!
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But sometimes it goes to far. I think putting a game console at £300 is ridiclous. This is only going to put people off buying a PS2, If they started the PS2 off at £200, many more people would of bought one.
I dont think PS2 has had a very sucsseful start in England, first it is far to expensive for people to afford and also there were hardly any in the country.
For a console to have a good futre it has to have a good start, this is proven with the PSX. That has to be the most succesful console at this time, it even beat off the DC which is a newer and with a better memory and speed, but again people setteld with there cheap, but brilliant PSX. Where every ounce of polygon and memory has been used!
:)
What you on Spider?! Of course a good game will receive more money! Well done for stating the blatantly obvious!!!
"I dont think PS2 has had a very sucsseful start in England, first it is far to expensive for people to afford and also there were hardly any in the country. "
Well, seeing as the PS2 has sold more than the Dreamcast has in total, already in just 8 months the PS2 has sold very well indeed. Don't worry about Sony, they have gotten everything right - even with the price.
But I agree that games consoles should be more affordable to the average gamer, and that is why the GameCube is looking like the next BIG thing and surely it's going to finally put Nintendo back in front of Sony in terms of home console gaming, obviously they have the handheld market in the bag!
Dan2K1
The point of making things a certain price is to enable Sony not to incure incredible losses. See?
"I dont think PS2 has had a very sucsseful start in England, first it is far to expensive for people to afford and also there were hardly any in the country. "
Well, seeing as the PS2 has sold more than the Dreamcast has in total, already in just 8 months the PS2 has sold very well indeed. Don't worry about Sony, they have gotten everything right - even with the price.
But I agree that games consoles should be more affordable to the average gamer, and that is why the GameCube is looking like the next BIG thing and surely it's going to finally put Nintendo back in front of Sony in terms of home console gaming, obviously they have the handheld market in the bag!
Dan2K1
The point of making things a certain price is to enable Sony not to incure incredible losses. See?
Big up the Spider. Great topic Spider I just think that maybe your topics might be more appreciated in the Prime Topics. You will probably get more replies there.
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You mentioned that a console needs a decent start - such as the PSX.
However, the PS2 sales have outstripped PSX's at the same stage following release.
I wouldn't agree that £300 is too much for what the PS2 is. People would generally agree that a new console should not really be above say £200. With PS2 you have a games machine and also a DVD player. I think Sony got this move just right - releasing PS2 before DVD really took off in this country. There is currently a DVD 'price war', with the cheapest being around the £125 mark.
Taking this into account, you are probably paying around £150-175 as a games machine.
I agree that the overall package price put the machine outof a lot of the younger gamers price range, but surely this was the intention. If Sony started the machine at under £200, it would probably have killed off the PSX immediately, leading to disgruntled software houses who have put a lot of development costs to upcoming PSX games. This would have led to those companies losing faith with Sony and possibly switching their intentions to X-Box or other.
As new games for PSX are slowing down, Sony has reduced the price of PS2. This will continue to pre X-Box, GC release where we could probably expect a £200-225 price tag, as well as next-gen software.
As for the comments of PSX being cheap and using every ounce of memory and polgon power - well, now it does (occasionally), but it certainly wasn't the case 6 months after launch. The PSX is now several years old.
Keep the memories of recent PSX releases (Simpsons Wrestling, Time Crisis Project Titan etc), and compare them to PS2 release after the same time period. Tell us then that you are disappointed.
However, the PS2 sales have outstripped PSX's at the same stage following release.
I wouldn't agree that £300 is too much for what the PS2 is. People would generally agree that a new console should not really be above say £200. With PS2 you have a games machine and also a DVD player. I think Sony got this move just right - releasing PS2 before DVD really took off in this country. There is currently a DVD 'price war', with the cheapest being around the £125 mark.
Taking this into account, you are probably paying around £150-175 as a games machine.
I agree that the overall package price put the machine outof a lot of the younger gamers price range, but surely this was the intention. If Sony started the machine at under £200, it would probably have killed off the PSX immediately, leading to disgruntled software houses who have put a lot of development costs to upcoming PSX games. This would have led to those companies losing faith with Sony and possibly switching their intentions to X-Box or other.
As new games for PSX are slowing down, Sony has reduced the price of PS2. This will continue to pre X-Box, GC release where we could probably expect a £200-225 price tag, as well as next-gen software.
As for the comments of PSX being cheap and using every ounce of memory and polgon power - well, now it does (occasionally), but it certainly wasn't the case 6 months after launch. The PSX is now several years old.
Keep the memories of recent PSX releases (Simpsons Wrestling, Time Crisis Project Titan etc), and compare them to PS2 release after the same time period. Tell us then that you are disappointed.
As a lot of gaming companys have noticed that gaming attracts money to there buisness. And that if they make a succseful game money will come rolling in!
But sometimes it goes to far. I think putting a game console at £300 is ridiclous. This is only going to put people off buying a PS2, If they started the PS2 off at £200, many more people would of bought one.
I dont think PS2 has had a very sucsseful start in England, first it is far to expensive for people to afford and also there were hardly any in the country.
For a console to have a good futre it has to have a good start, this is proven with the PSX. That has to be the most succesful console at this time, it even beat off the DC which is a newer and with a better memory and speed, but again people setteld with there cheap, but brilliant PSX. Where every ounce of polygon and memory has been used!
:)
But sometimes it goes to far. I think putting a game console at £300 is ridiclous. This is only going to put people off buying a PS2, If they started the PS2 off at £200, many more people would of bought one.
I dont think PS2 has had a very sucsseful start in England, first it is far to expensive for people to afford and also there were hardly any in the country.
For a console to have a good futre it has to have a good start, this is proven with the PSX. That has to be the most succesful console at this time, it even beat off the DC which is a newer and with a better memory and speed, but again people setteld with there cheap, but brilliant PSX. Where every ounce of polygon and memory has been used!
:)