For me it's not about the money, but why would I ruin part of the game experience? Where is the reward if you just buy the unlock?
With Live costing $60 per year and probably going up it doesn't matter what the console costs. I think of my friends who have been paying for LIVE since day1 and all the money they have wasted. They could have bought a nice PC with that money.
I'm building a gaming PC for my brother here is the cost:
Case $40
Powersupply $50
Motherboard $50
Processor $150
OS $120
Graphics card:$260
SSD: $200
Memory: $50
DVD: $15
Misc supplies: $25
= $960 and that is with almost everything on a deal over the course of waiting 3 months, you could easily spend a lot more
Also Playstation is more than just a console you are buying a set list of exclusive...
We have 5 people in our house so home entertainment is a good investment. We go out to eat that's $60-100, we goto the movies $40-50, hit a game $300+, etc...
PS3 we bought day 1 for $599 and it's been worth every penny. Want to see what PS4 brings before I say it's worth $600, but for us value is more important than just the price tag. And Playstation is worth it just for the exclusives
I buy Playstation for their exclusives. Multiplats I generally play on PC. But this is BS anyway. Everyone said that about PS3, then we find out later it's only because MS was paying off developers to be exclusive for a period of time.
PC + PS3 is the best combo. What you save in Live fees alone you could build a nice game library /w Steam. I bought Xbox1, they supported it good for about 2 years then starved players into buying 360. You see the same thing happening to 360 owners.
Microsoft will use the same strategy they have used for the last 2 generations. They will launch with a multi-million possibly billion marketing campaign. They will front load the Xbox with great exclusives and even buy them. Then as the generation goes on they will limit there releases to 1-3 titles per year to starve hardcore gamers into the next generation. Rinse and repeat
I think there are two theories. Sony believes games sell systems. Microsoft believes marketing sells systems. In America marketing wins.
For the same reason Walmart and McDonalds are. You aren't getting the best experience or the best hamburger. You are getting cheap and 360 is cheaper in the short term than PS3. It's the same reason why in the US you pay so much for your cell plan and so little for the phone.
@mandf
I remember when MS went on and on about how we didn't even need HDMI
@decrypt
Even myself primarily a PC gamer, PS+ is the best deal going in gaming.
XMB is great, infact my gf asked me if we could set up our PC with the same bar.
Can't help it... That's what she said
Just like when you could buy an SDTV or HDTV. That's how 3D is now. When the price get's low enough on 3D panels all TVs will just come with 3D.
Seems like a pretty hot deal. Don't really neeeeeed it, but for that price it would be pretty cool to have 3D
What short comings?
Guess the MS press brigade is getting ready for the holiday season again. Seems this time of year we get a fresh batch of BS anti-Sony gaming articles.
Why wouldn't it work out? You could always play one then delete the game file. If by chance you want to play more of those crappy games then you could always load the data back on. But in all reality once is enough for any of those.
That is a huge exaggeration. Secondly why pay for a harddrive you are going to throw away anyway. In my case I've upgraded my PS3 harddrive to a 1TB drive so it would actually be better to not pay for the drive if you don't need to.
Faster RAM doesn't make for a better game or experience... Umm yes it does, it gives developers less limitations