JC10001 said:
Ridge Racer launched with the console. :lol
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...n+"ridge+racer"&rnum=3&hl=en#da15724426c96d3b
AND I GUESS THAT GUY IS LYING ABOUT HAVING THE GAME AT LAUCH
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Ridge Racer launched with the console. :lol
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...n+"ridge+racer"&rnum=3&hl=en#da15724426c96d3b
AND I GUESS THAT GUY IS LYING ABOUT HAVING THE GAME AT LAUCH
JC is basing everything on this...
He HEARD it had been pushed back. That does not necessarily mean that it was delayed, though. The shipment could have been late or may not have shown up at that store. The game was a launch title, though. Of that there is no question.
He HEARD it had been pushed back. That does not necessarily mean that it was delayed, though. The shipment could have been late or may not have shown up at that store. The game was a launch title, though. Of that there is no question.
Beer Monkey
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No question at all. It is a pure and simple fact.
imastalker co.
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JC, if i were you, i'd try saying that like, you were in europe at the time or something.
Apharmd Battler
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Kobun Heat said:
LMAO!!! :lol
MS wants 2 SKUs so they can do bait-n-switch advertising/marketing. They can say "Get the next generation Xbox 360 for as low as $299" in commercials to lure ppl into stores and then run them a sales pitch to get them to do an impulse buy of the "amazing $399" bundle instead. This is actually pretty insulting.
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empanada said:
Then people can realize that they can get the PS3 with more stuff.
citrus lump
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WordofGod said:
It will be ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!
Trustus Jones
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Pimpwerx said:
Just when you think you`ve seen it all on this forum, someone comes along and raises the bar a little higher. Who in their right mind would have a bet on banning themself and not even research the answer first :lol
Synth_floyd
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I said this in the other thread but anyway I think it's really gay of MS to make $400 the de facto price of an Xbox 360, but if this news really ruins your day (like Zelda being delayed did for many people) then dude you really need to get out more. Seriously.
JoshuaJSlone
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Yeah. More and more I wonder if it actually might launch at half of what the competition does. If one uses the $399 X360 as the basis for comparison, there's a chance... of course, by then perhaps the bare-bones 360 might be down to a comparable price.Kaijima said:
Beer Monkey
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Hey, I'm kinda sorry for the guy, but he served me, and it was on.
To back away after a balls-out challenge like that is just not an option.
To back away after a balls-out challenge like that is just not an option.
WrathOfOtaibah
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Anyone going backwards after this generation is over? For the games on the systems, its just not worth it anymore. I might start up a kick ass Saturn collection.
Red Scarlet
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Well, didn't Carmack say we are entering the 'golden age' of gaming? It sure sounds like it's true, except not in the way he was referring.
MightyHedgehog
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kaching said:
Wow. A kaching post I can get behind. Spot on.
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PhatSaqs said:
showing the harddrive.. wireless controllers . etc. and the price point: 'starting at $299!!!'
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This is just all so stupid.
I can't believe that publishers will be happy about the prospect of $400 consoles on the market when every year they are publicly begging for Sony and Microsoft to drop the prices even further on the existing machines. You know when sales really took off for existing consoles (GameCube aside)? When they moved to $200 at E3 2003. With the precedent Microsoft is trying to set, it's going to take forever to get to that mass market pricing level again. Insane insane insane. I realize that they don't want to take a bath on hardware sales again, but this just sucks.
I want a PS3 and a Xbox 360. But there's absolutely no way I'm paying $400 for each system. There's no way I would pay $300 for more than one of them. Right now, I don't even feel like paying $300 for either of them.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
One console future.
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OK, I feel better. See yall sometime down the road in the next generation. Until then, I'll be playing my current crop of games and reading some novels.
This is just all so stupid.
I can't believe that publishers will be happy about the prospect of $400 consoles on the market when every year they are publicly begging for Sony and Microsoft to drop the prices even further on the existing machines. You know when sales really took off for existing consoles (GameCube aside)? When they moved to $200 at E3 2003. With the precedent Microsoft is trying to set, it's going to take forever to get to that mass market pricing level again. Insane insane insane. I realize that they don't want to take a bath on hardware sales again, but this just sucks.
I want a PS3 and a Xbox 360. But there's absolutely no way I'm paying $400 for each system. There's no way I would pay $300 for more than one of them. Right now, I don't even feel like paying $300 for either of them.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
One console future.
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OK, I feel better. See yall sometime down the road in the next generation. Until then, I'll be playing my current crop of games and reading some novels.
fortified_concept
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WordofGod said:
Yes it justifies the 400$ price point. Anything above that is pure madness. And anyone who thinks that Sony is gonna sell PS3 above 400$ is either insane or stupid. And you can quote me on that in the near future.
Deja vu btw: It's the "PSP is gonna cost 300$-400$" debate all over again.
I don't think that's accurate, Darien. Sony's support of the PS2 hdd was abortive practically from the start. They didn't put enough serious effort into supporting it worldwide like they did the Network Adapter or even Eyetoy. So what we've seen is not what happens when you splinter a userbase, but what happens when the platform manufacturer doesn't get in the driver's seat for the peripherals they put out - no one else is going to do it for them.DarienA said:
Well, if we can take Sony at face value that they will at least support an hdd from the beginning with the PS3, if not necessarily pack it in, that's a big improvement over this gen to have two major console manufacturers supporting the use of hdds. It will make it more palatable for multiplatform devs to go to the effort of including hdd support since they'd essentially have to write the support the exact same way for the X360 and PS3 (i.e. don't automatically cache to the hdd, but offer an "Enable caching" option in the Options menu of the game). Plus, even without factoring in the HDD on either platform, both platforms will be supporting other forms of higher capacity storage that this gen didn't - USB drives, flash media, etc. - which will also contribute to making the general climate even more favorable next gen for the kind of things that were done with the Xbox hdd this gen.
Nothing's change on my side. It's just that a lot of hardcore MS/Xbox fans were delivered such a shock to the system today that many are now more willing to listen to reasonMightyHedgehog said:
