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Hats off to Sony unlike MS and Ninty they are there to make gaming affordable unlike the others who are only interested in profit.
Sony scored a big hit with the PS1 and platinum games, which were affordable quality games that had to sell a certain amount to turn platinum, while N64 was still trying to sell cartridges for £64.99 Sony's platinum range came in at £19.99 and proved a big hit.
I am glad to see they are carryiing on the tradition with there PS2 platinum range. I mean lets face it GT3 is a far superior game to Project Gotham and yet it is have the price. They say you have to pay for quality but on this evidence you don't.
Sony scored a big hit with the PS1 and platinum games, which were affordable quality games that had to sell a certain amount to turn platinum, while N64 was still trying to sell cartridges for £64.99 Sony's platinum range came in at £19.99 and proved a big hit.
I am glad to see they are carryiing on the tradition with there PS2 platinum range. I mean lets face it GT3 is a far superior game to Project Gotham and yet it is have the price. They say you have to pay for quality but on this evidence you don't.
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El Swandre wrote:
> AfroJoe wrote:
> I got a new DVD player last week. It was new. Had been out for less
> than a month. Guess how much? £110.
>
> It's good quality too.
>
> I mean when the PS2 came out, DVD players were more expensive so it
> isn't much of a comparison.
>
> Better would be a DVD player from two years ago + a Gamecube, to see
> if that's cheaper than a PS2.
Well done mate someone does talks sense I agree.
The average price of a DVD player to years ago would have been £200 and that to a Gamecube and that makes £330 more the a PS2 at launch.
The forum can't use the price of the PS2 at launch and compare that to today without doing the same with the DVD player price.
> AfroJoe wrote:
> I got a new DVD player last week. It was new. Had been out for less
> than a month. Guess how much? £110.
>
> It's good quality too.
>
> I mean when the PS2 came out, DVD players were more expensive so it
> isn't much of a comparison.
>
> Better would be a DVD player from two years ago + a Gamecube, to see
> if that's cheaper than a PS2.
Well done mate someone does talks sense I agree.
The average price of a DVD player to years ago would have been £200 and that to a Gamecube and that makes £330 more the a PS2 at launch.
The forum can't use the price of the PS2 at launch and compare that to today without doing the same with the DVD player price.
P@st@ M@st@ wrote:
> Sorry Afrojoe, were just too quick for each other....
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It doesn't really matter, as long as we're getting out points across to this fanboy.
> Sorry Afrojoe, were just too quick for each other....
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It doesn't really matter, as long as we're getting out points across to this fanboy.
Sorry Afrojoe, were just too quick for each other....
Techno freak wrote:
> The only reason there are no GC games at £44.99 is because there
> are no games out there worthy of that price tag. They are all PS2
> rip-offs that have been converted over and look no different. Yawn
> Yawn Yawn!!!!!
Oh My God! You contradictive, hypocritical frelak!!!
> The only reason there are no GC games at £44.99 is because there
> are no games out there worthy of that price tag. They are all PS2
> rip-offs that have been converted over and look no different. Yawn
> Yawn Yawn!!!!!
Oh My God! You contradictive, hypocritical frelak!!!
Techno freak wrote:
> The only reason there are no GC games at £44.99 is because there
> are no games out there worthy of that price tag. They are all PS2
> rip-offs that have been converted over and look no different. Yawn
> Yawn Yawn!!!!!
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Hmmm....
Rogue Leader, Pikmin, Super Monkey Ball, Smash Bros, Luigi's Mansion...
For the future....
Resident Evil games, Eternal Darkness, Perfect Dark Zero, Starfox, Mario Sunshine, Zelda, Kameo, F-Zero GC, Mario Kart GC, Phantasy Star Online 2....
You're just a bit of a fool methinks.
> The only reason there are no GC games at £44.99 is because there
> are no games out there worthy of that price tag. They are all PS2
> rip-offs that have been converted over and look no different. Yawn
> Yawn Yawn!!!!!
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Hmmm....
Rogue Leader, Pikmin, Super Monkey Ball, Smash Bros, Luigi's Mansion...
For the future....
Resident Evil games, Eternal Darkness, Perfect Dark Zero, Starfox, Mario Sunshine, Zelda, Kameo, F-Zero GC, Mario Kart GC, Phantasy Star Online 2....
You're just a bit of a fool methinks.
Techno freak wrote:
> The only reason there are no GC games at £44.99 is because there
> are no games out there worthy of that price tag. They are all PS2
> rip-offs that have been converted over and look no different. Yawn
> Yawn Yawn!!!!!
Helloooo?
Rouge Squadron
SMB
Luigis Mansion
Wave Race
SSB
etc....
I don't think you'll find any of these on the PS2, and before you say there just copies of other PS2 games, I think you will find your wrong. Again.
> The only reason there are no GC games at £44.99 is because there
> are no games out there worthy of that price tag. They are all PS2
> rip-offs that have been converted over and look no different. Yawn
> Yawn Yawn!!!!!
Helloooo?
Rouge Squadron
SMB
Luigis Mansion
Wave Race
SSB
etc....
I don't think you'll find any of these on the PS2, and before you say there just copies of other PS2 games, I think you will find your wrong. Again.
AfroJoe wrote:
> I got a new DVD player last week. It was new. Had been out for less
> than a month. Guess how much? £110.
>
> It's good quality too.
I mean when the PS2 came out, DVD players were more expensive so it isn't much of a comparison.
Better would be a DVD player from two years ago + a Gamecube, to see if that's cheaper than a PS2.
> I got a new DVD player last week. It was new. Had been out for less
> than a month. Guess how much? £110.
>
> It's good quality too.
I mean when the PS2 came out, DVD players were more expensive so it isn't much of a comparison.
Better would be a DVD player from two years ago + a Gamecube, to see if that's cheaper than a PS2.
SolidSnakeXXI wrote:
> Sony scored a big hit with the PS1 and platinum games, which were
> affordable quality games that had to sell a certain amount to turn
> platinum, while N64 was still trying to sell cartridges for
> £64.99 Sony's platinum range came in at £19.99 and
> proved
> a big hit.
>
> N64 games were around £44.99 new, not £64.99. You're about
> £20.00 off there mate. Also, you say 'Sony scored a big hit with
> platinum games'. So did the N64 with the praised 'Pocket Money Range'
> (It was either that or the Gold collection, I can't remember) that
> brought N64 games out at around £29.99/£19.99.
>
Sorry mate, your both a bit wrong. Originally Killer Instinct Gold for the N64 did have a RRP of £64.99, however, this went down within weeks to around £44.99, people just weren't buying games. Generally though, new releases were about th £40-£50 pound mark
At this time the PS1 games were still about £40, the platinium range hadn't appeared yet.
When it did, Nintendo didn't react quickly, as there console was still quite new (less than two years old), it took about a year for them to retaliate with the gamers choice (or whatever) RRP'd at £29.99, but many places sold many of the games cheaper (apart from Mariokart I think).
You have to remeber that Nintendo's range was more expensive in general beacuse of the cartridge based system, which lets face it was a better medium, it was just too expensive to keep using it.
> Sony scored a big hit with the PS1 and platinum games, which were
> affordable quality games that had to sell a certain amount to turn
> platinum, while N64 was still trying to sell cartridges for
> £64.99 Sony's platinum range came in at £19.99 and
> proved
> a big hit.
>
> N64 games were around £44.99 new, not £64.99. You're about
> £20.00 off there mate. Also, you say 'Sony scored a big hit with
> platinum games'. So did the N64 with the praised 'Pocket Money Range'
> (It was either that or the Gold collection, I can't remember) that
> brought N64 games out at around £29.99/£19.99.
>
Sorry mate, your both a bit wrong. Originally Killer Instinct Gold for the N64 did have a RRP of £64.99, however, this went down within weeks to around £44.99, people just weren't buying games. Generally though, new releases were about th £40-£50 pound mark
At this time the PS1 games were still about £40, the platinium range hadn't appeared yet.
When it did, Nintendo didn't react quickly, as there console was still quite new (less than two years old), it took about a year for them to retaliate with the gamers choice (or whatever) RRP'd at £29.99, but many places sold many of the games cheaper (apart from Mariokart I think).
You have to remeber that Nintendo's range was more expensive in general beacuse of the cartridge based system, which lets face it was a better medium, it was just too expensive to keep using it.
The only reason there are no GC games at £44.99 is because there are no games out there worthy of that price tag. They are all PS2 rip-offs that have been converted over and look no different. Yawn Yawn Yawn!!!!!
cjh wrote:
> I don't know much about how the industry works, but I'm guessing, to
> make more money :o)
So your saying that Sony don't work as a charity and indeed work for the money by pricing their games not to please consumers but to make profits?
> I don't know much about how the industry works, but I'm guessing, to
> make more money :o)
So your saying that Sony don't work as a charity and indeed work for the money by pricing their games not to please consumers but to make profits?
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