The PS3 is Fine!

It very well could be 900 dollars a system, we are not going to pay that though. Much the same way the 360 costs $525 a system. There is a counteract measure to keep the hardware affordable(subsidization)

I started out with coleco vision in my teens and have been a big fan of video gaming even now that I'm in my mid 40s. If I wanted a PS3 the price would not be that much of a consideration and looking at how much money the average teen has to spend, I don't think it would stop many teens either.

HOWEVER...

I have problems with Sony as a company, the quality of their consoles, and the strategies they use on their customers. My first Play Station is still rolling in the extra bed room. My second PS2 (out of two 2nd gen platgforms) is sitting on the TV stand trying to decide if it will play today or not. I only wore out 1 controller on the PS1... I'm up to 7 last time I checked on the PS2. Count the extra cost of games when the actual game play time is less than half (on average) of the PS1 games and I'm just not that thrilled anymore. Yes, my reflexes are slower, but I find the play ridiculously fast and seemingly designed to make up for the lack of imagination of many games. Resident Evil 4 is the only game in my recent memory that actually is worth the money for the amount of game time you get.

I could get you all reallyu bored and go on and on but to keep it short... Sony is complacent, is putting out a product that doesn't last as long, games are lame and short, and Sony's recent behavior with their root kit is frightening considering they also recently copyrighted software that could be used to "lock" a CD to the console it was first played on (thus preventing it from being played on a different machine). Remember the old Divix DVDs Circuit City and Best Buy sold that would only play for 24 hours once it was put in the machine? Sure... you could pay extra money to get the key to unlock the Divix permanently. Could Sony be positioning itself to control the used game market with add on fees? Will the PS3 require a phone line like the Divix DVD players did?

Excuse the rant but Sony and[/d] the game makers are going to have to dazzle me if they want my business again.

grim