Da_bang80
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Doesn't the PS3 cost like $600 american? What is Sony thinking? Do they believe people are going to want to pay that much for a frickin console? Especially when a PC is so much better.
Each console is marketed to a different consumer base. Nintendo for younger kids. Xbox for teens and young adults. Sony for people who have too much money.
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Da_bang, my nephew and a few of his friends are die hard console gamers and would, probably will, may have already, buy the dang thing. 8 or 10 units will be sold to just that group, and out of 100+ population I would imagine that there are more. At 50 units per 100,000 that is almost 15,000 units, as a low end estimate, for the states. .05% is a small market share. ~$8.9 million.
Add the new games, replacement controlers, etc. to it and they will do okay.
Also, people with too few brain cells.
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I just want to play Katamari & DDR again. Not happening anymore since my girlfriend dropped me for a marine arthropod.
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What about people like me? I have a Sega Genesis, an old NES, an Atari Jaguar (just so I can play the best AvP game evar), a PS2, an Xbox (just so I can play the Xbox version of Onimusha), and a Gamecube (Zelda Legacy, yo... and Kingdom Hearts). But all used, mind you. Except the PS2.
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Wow, I'm neither straight or lesbian so the Wii or PS3 don't appeal to me.
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Look at the bright side, you can design a console for your niche market.
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Da_bang80
A few sectors short of an Empire
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There's the Gamecube. It's pretty frooty looking, unless of course you get the silver edition like my lil' sis.
I personally like nintendo having grown up with an NES and N64. They're surprisingly tough. Both consoles have endured numerous jolts and drops with never a problem. The only problem I had with the N64 was playing Harvest Moon64 for 36 hours. The memory "jumper" pak melted on me. So I went to get an expanded memory pak for Perfect Dark.
The gamecubes pretty resilient as well. There's a movie on the net where some guy chucked on off a 1 story building and it still worked.
However if I were to buy a console today I'd probly stick with the Xbox since it has a good library of games. Maybe I'll wait a year or two and get a 360 when the game selection broadens up a bit. Especially Halo 3 which will be out in late '07 I believe.
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Da_bang80
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Ha! Lego Star Wars is interesting. But the infinite lives thing makes it kind of boring. I've only played a very few games for PS2 but I recommend the Battlefront games if you like that kind of game, They did a pretty good job with the console version of both games. But I feel that BF1 is still better than Battlefront 2, even with the space battles and Jedi heroes.
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