>599 US DOLLARS>599 US DOLLARS>599 US DOLLARS
They shouldn't have charged people for the mandatory ps2 hardware they shoved inside.
>>720794046Worth every penny in 2006
600 dollas aint shit to chad warden
It's Ridge Racer! RIIIIIIIDGE RACEEEEEER!
They fell for the "multimedia" "living room hub" meme that was going around like a flu in boardrooms. They thought an "everything" device was a good idea, that people would see the value in a box that could store and manage their photos, camcorder footage, music, stream TV/movies, fucking print shit out, and play 3 generations of playstation games while also acting as a staging area for your PSP and later your Vita, managing games and saves.And $600 for that really is fucking cheap as chips compared to PCs with that kind of power. However they learned the hard way that gamers want to play games. And that's about it. If your console can do other things, then cool, but we ain't payin' for it.
>$599Haha, losers!>pays $5999 for a GPU that cant play new games at 60fps without framegen
>>720794046We didn't know how good we had it.
>>720794046PS6 is going to be $799 with no reader and $839 with the readerGames will be $70-$80PS+ will get $10 more expensive
>>720797161>And $600 for that really is fucking cheap as chips compared to PCs with that kind of power.not really, a $600 build in that era was strong, true mid range gpus were $200-250
>>720796412Niggas, niggas tryin to talk about Halo, about Halo 3, Y’know what I’m saying? Man they best rename that shit to GAYlo Three…shit, that shit is mad gay. True niggas, true niggas don’t play that game. Y’know who play that shit? Gay niggas…gay niggas.
People always act like $600 was unreasonable back then but my wage has literally not increased in the last 20 years
>>720794046So it was actually $500?How did this lie get so widely spread and for so long
>>720797461>Games will be $70-$80Already are 70-80GTA6 would be the first to start the $99,99 trend
>>720797557The important point of my post was all the stuff it did. Putting a mid range GPU into a Celeron might have got you PS3 like performance for $500 in 2006 era games, but you'd have been shit out of luck trying to work with 1080p h.264 on that kind of set up which the PS3 could handle with ease. Same for emulating PS2 games, you need a proper CPU to do that and the PS3 gave you a subsidised real PS2 for that purpose.The market reaction though was that people were more receptive to a $250 discount to NOT have that capability. So your cheap PC was what people actually wanted, but they wanted it for $350.
>>720794046>599 US dollars>You get build in Wifi (this was not industry standard at the time)>Rechargable controller with Gyro>PSX and PS2 back compat>Blu Ray player>DVD player>CD player>and a powerfull console on topnot defending the PS3 here but looking back, you actually got value for your new system, it wasnt just ''fuck you'' expensive because they decided it should be like the PS5 wich cant even play fucking DvD's
>>720798486well, and it had actual games too.
>>720796613Yes, Ken. I remember that one.
