First y’all haters say that “It’s ONLY a gaming platform, I’m not paying $600″ (stubbornly quoting the high-end price which is higher only because of the extras beyond gaming), then when they leave something (HDMI) out of the more stripped down gaming model, which most people can’t even use yet, the haters cry that they don’t understand that consumers want it all.

Bottom line: they’re having difficulty with so many new technologies. The technologies are superior to those in the 360. Yeah, you’ll pay more for them. Over the life of a console, not much more.

Sony is not more sneaky or foolish than M$. They are better at hardware, and they had better get off their asses and make sure their software (online) for PS3 holds up to XBox Live. Their movie arm is the best at marketing of all the movie studios. People talk about the “Sony hype machine”, which is mostly just them being silent and letting rumors fly, and I wonder if it’s the same people saying “$ony hyp3 machin3″ who months later are saying how Sony can’t relate, can’t market. Bash them when they’re on top, kick them when they’re down. Sounds good…

And it’s not “good news” that they dropped the price. This was a ridiculous and completely expected marketing tactic that was as foolish as it was short-sighted. All it did was create a flurry of press about how expensive the damn thing would be.

Again, Sony has no clue how to be real with their consumers, and they’re suffering because of it.

most Xbox360’s sold at launch went for 1000+ on ebay, where a lot (if not most) of the owners right now got their console. I understand what you’re saying about price and whatnot, but i’m nowhere near a middle class, and I don’t even think the PS3 is that expensive as i’ll be getting one asap. It takes like 2 paychecks working a 9 - 5 job to afford the 60gb PS3. I know that people have other things to think about, but if that was the case, they wouldn’t have spent $400+ on the Xbox360. Now would they? It seems like the people criticising the PS3 because of it’s price are the ones who bought a $400+ machine. So what gives? How is $400 that much different than paying $500 for the 20gb PS3?

It also comes with a browser if you needed to know.

Dash,

Who’s foolish enough to buy a console for $400? They’re probably as foolish as people who perfer to buy a new console that isn’t much stronger than the original Xbox360, just because it comes with a wand. I am not trying to diss Nintendo, or the Wii because I will own one before the end of 2007. But i’m sure people want to see pretty graphics with great games. The Wii won’t change gameplay just because you’re now moving your hand to slash your enemies. Will the Wii prove to be successful? We’ll have to wait and find out.

I would like Sony to find an alternative way to add vibration back to the controllers. I will miss that feature.

I’m still pulling for the PS3, even though it seems to be the underdog in the next-gen platforms.

One big big plus is that Sony have announced that the lower-end PS3 wil in fact now come with full HDMI support, so you could potentially get a PS3 with blu-ray player, full HDMI support, 20gig HDD, all it’s other bells and whistles for around $100 LESS than the planned price of Microsoft’s equivalent Xbox 360 and external HD-DVD drive….

The addition of HDMI support in the low-end model, coupled with the price drop, if only in Japan for the present, at leasts indicates that maybe Sony are finally starting to listen to what the public are saying and doing something about it…. Let’s hope they keep it up

The bad news is, PS3 software seems to be pricey like hell. It is suspected to sell around $85.00 to $95.00 per piece.

Oh god I hope so, I was so disappointed when Sony said no more support for vibration. It would be cool if they gave us options, even one that allows us to buy the boomerang controllers. I know I know, no one likes it but I actually thought it was cool.