Sony PLAYSTATION2 Goes Down to $99 Tomorrow

[newtekie1]

What!?!?!? You can get a brand new Xbox 360 for $200, and buy a second hand 20GB HDD for like $25 and be able to run anything. Where are you getting your figures

To get a comparable Xbox360 new, is $400. And a 20GB HDD is not enough, at least it wasn't for me, it filled up very quickly. And even then, I have to go out and buy a wireless adaptor for $100, and a Play and Charge kit for $20.

Or if I go with the $200 Arcade console, I still have to put out $100 for the 60GB HDD and another $100 for the Wireless Adaptor, and another $20 a Play and Charge kit.

We can talk about used figures, but they aren't really useful, I've found used PS3's for under $300, and they usually come with games and extra accessories. I'm talking new prices, what you would have to put out if you walked in the store today and bought everything new.

Features? It's a game console. Mine just sits under my TV doing nothing unless there's the occasional game we rent. I think they are all overpriced honestly. They don't do nearly half as much a gaming PC can.

Then you are missing out, there are a lot of things the PS3 can do, some of them even involve gaming, and you probably use them and not even think about it.

A wireless connection for starts, something the PS3 comes with, but the Xbox360 doesn't.

The ability to use any USB cable to charge the controllers, with no need to buy an extra accessory to charge the controller, and the PS3 comes with the USB cable to boot. Hell, for the $20 I had to put out for a Play and Charge kit, I bought a 15 ft. USB cable to charge my PS3 controller, so I charge it while sitting on my couch in my living room if I want, something I actually can't do with my Play and Charge kit because the cable is too short.

 

[ShadowFold]

Well I never use it in the first place since sony seems to think there console is meant for shooters all of a sudden. I bought it to play JRPG's, they have failed me there.

 

[burtram]

I for one, would love to pickup a new ps2 if they dropped the price a little. My entertainment center is getting really crowded, so if I were to replace my launch ps2 with a slim one, I could have it all better organized, plus I would be able to fit my N64 in there too.

 

[Imsochobo]

hmm, isnt 99 a bit expensive for a 10 year old box that probaly uses a die surface of an atom ?

xD

i bet i can find 360's cheaper soon . i aint far off, but then comes the harddrive and such. that cost more than the 360 itself lol.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

My console just sits 0n my desk not getting used. I have maybe 6 games for my 360. The most I have played is GoW and GoW2. The day I hear Epic say they are releasing GoW2 for the PC is probably the day i sell my 360.

 

[Hayder_Master]

PLAYSTATION2 i almost thing people forget it , maybe will be good for kids gift

 

[Triprift]

Still got mine even though dont really play it now ive got a PS3.

 

[Weer]

I beg to differ. I cant even emulate on my PC

Your rig is about as good as my old one. There is nothing you can't emulate.

 

[BumbleBee]

Features? It's a game console. Mine just sits under my TV doing nothing unless there's the occasional game we rent. I think they are all overpriced honestly. They don't do nearly half as much a gaming PC can.

you will like this article.

This year the PC gaming market is worth over $20 billion, that figure will rise to $34 billion before 2012, and since 2005 there has been more gaming PCs shipped than the Wii, PS3 and 360 combined. This is the conclusion of a study from research group JPR. In the group’s latest report – called The PC Gaming Market – JPR calculates that there are three classes of PC gaming machines and together, from Q3 2005 until Q3 2008, 196 million of these units were shipped. The study also estimated by comparison that 74.7m PS3s, Wiis and 360s have been shipped worldwide.

Source

the study says the PC Gaming Market was only declining not dying and it's on the rise again.

 

[Darknova]

Bah, still more expensive than my PS3 was...

 

[Triprift]

Lol how much exactly was your PS3 dark?

 

[Darknova]

Lol how much exactly was your PS3 dark?

£50

 

[Triprift]

Dayem and here i was paying 600 odd even though it was birthday money.

Edit: You sure that didnt fall of the back of a truck.

 

[Darknova]

Dayem and here i was paying 600 odd even though it was birthday money.

Hahah, I got it for that price because it had been brought back as faulty, but there was nothing wrong with it. Works perfectly

 

[alexp999]

I was gonna buy a PS3 but I only found one game on it that I wanted it for, so I ended up buying an Elite and selling my original 360.

Shame that Sony havent got the sort of games collection that the PS2 had

 

[Ketxxx]

I'm in UK.

if I found it for £50 I'd pick it up, cus I have one of the originals still going

£86 or £55 if you don't mind buying from ebay type stores.