Posted on 11/17/2006 7:27:44 AM PST by GQuagmire
http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/video/10339676/index.html
Idiots stampeding for playstation 3
Good point, I hadn't though of it as a classic loss leader.
Is it going to be good? I love games like that.
Holy crap. I must say, that is tempting as crap.
That said, I bet I would get a non-payer or something or worse, the prices would fall since everybody else started selling them on Ebay, too.
$600 is a heck of a lot for me.
Of course, however I can fantasize of a world that consisted of only sex and Playstation....
As Sam Cooke said "what a wonderful world this would be"
based on the fact many are selling for at least 3,000 bucks.....I would like to buy one to sell on Ebay.
But, my word....$600 is a lot for me. I am still in college until the end of this semester.
I would be horrified if I got a non-bidder or by the time I got one the prices on Ebay started dropping big-time.
Ah, but will it be a non-payer?
Technically, I guess you could sell it on Ebay even before you have the item, then get the item.
But, if you claimed overnight or something, that would be lying...and if you didn't, you would not get near as much for it.
No...I don't believe I have. :)
I can wait until tomorrow. Ultra high-res, realistic rendering of games never impressed me as much as really good game play. I still find myself going back to the Cube to play Monkeyball, or the 64 to play Tetrisphere, or even my old Atari to play Centipede, instead of cranking up the computer for a high-res game. That's why I'm getting the Wii.
Apparently his pre-order was not honored....look at the bottom of the page.
So the PS3 won't be available in Europe for another 6 months?
Wow.
I'm still playin Company of Heroes and Warhammer40k: Dark Crusade.
I play games on the PC, but it is tempting to get this to sell it.
The $15K fool got a reprieve. According to the seller, the retailer who took his order is not getting any PS3s and there's only an outside chance of them getting any to sell by Christmas so the seller has to cancel the auction that would have made him some big bucks.
Because they're pushing the PS3 to the edge of what technology can do, so there were delays in design and manufacturing, especially in the Blu-Ray unit. What is now available is just the few they could get out the door before their latest self-imposed deadline. In fact, the operating system isn't really even finished and fully tested, so anyone who plugs one in on the first day of sale will likely find it already downloading updates
The real release would be early next year if Sony actually released them when they were ready and had enough to sell.
The PS3 isn't only ahead of its time, it's too far ahead of its time. IMHO, it's too big, hot and power-hungry to be a game console, and should have been released in a year or two when the proper technology will be available in quantity (Blu-Ray, die shrink on the chips, etc.).
Actually it's not that out of line. Game makers pay for the priviledge of making games for a particular game system, payouts vary from sizable upfront fees to negligible per unit sold fees. Plus of course many of the games for these game systems are actually released by the manufacturer so they get all the money. The same core marketing model is used by printer and razor manufacturer, lose money on the initial sale and make it all back on the necessary multiple secondary sales is a good revenue model.
I finally did the HD TV because, even though they will get cheaper, I decided the extra cost now was worth getting to have it before I get killed in a car crash.
But the free advertising isn't helpful, because they have NO MORE MACHINES to sell. Instead, it just makes people mad.
Then later, when you DO have machines for sale, the hype is gone and people are predisposed to the idea that they won't be able to buy your product.
Sony didn't want to sell 400,000, they wanted to sell millions. They had production problems, and design problems, and finally they just had to put out whatever they could produce, which included not supporting a lot of old ps/1 games they expected to support.
The Blu-Ray DVD is one. The other is that it's theoretically much more powerful. The XBox has a three-core PowerPC derivative (a high-speed version of what used to be in Apple Macintosh computers). The PS3 has a cell architecture, which is sort of like one core of the above chip controlling (IIRC) eight smaller processing cores that are designed to blast through gaming-type calculations very fast. Have you heard of SSE 3D acceleration for Pentium chips? It's sort of like having SSE times eight.
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