Gamers have said it. Sales have proven it. $600 is too much for a video game console. In July, Sony (SNE) finally recognized this widespread belief and dropped the price of its 60gig PS3 to $500 last month.
This certainly hasn't caused stock boys across the world to dust off the PS3 surplus with any sense of urgency (and probably won't), but could $499 be the magical price point where a PS3 purchase becomes feasible?
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
might as well turn this site in to a game sales and charts domain because thats all we bloody get for news latly.
With all its capabilities as a game machine and as a Blue-ray player, I feel the price point for the PS3 is appropriate. It's just not affordable for most gamers. Don't forget that once the 60g machines sell out, they are gone and the regular $600 price is back, unless Pachter is right and Sony drops the price to coincide with the release of GTA IV next year.
I think Sony should patent their sale charts... theme parks can really use it to design roller coasters.... is crazy how fast their sells drop....
i coud understand this, but they would thay go back to $599?
I paid the same amount for my Premium 360 and wireless networking adapter 15 months ago, so $499 was something I was willing to pay. Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed with the selection of available games. Please don't give me a list of what's coming, because I already know.
I am happy about the movie playback the machine offers. The DVD upscaling is the best I've seen so far and I like Blu-ray movies as well.