Looks like the shortage didn't affect my store. I got a 20 and a 60 gb version. Sorry, I wish I could open it up more but I don't want to disturb the contents.... The 20 GB will look the same as the above but it has 20 GB written in red letters on the bottom corner...
I dont know about eBay Japan, but if you start selling it right now over here you wont have to worry about work for the rest of the year... BTW, nice watermarks:lol:
Yeah they're both in auctions now that end Sunday. I took those pics and added them to the auction today. I won't be opening and playing them. I'm sure they're great machines, tho. Is it worth it? Not for me, but I'm sure I've bough some things in my life that would make others wonder the same about me. I was pretty negative on the PS3, then I got into it right before launch, but now that it's here in front of me I have all of my old doubts back. I've said many times that the video game industry has struck out every time they've tried to release a computer/game machine. Too expensive for gamers, not enough flexibility for the PC guys. And even the AV guys are getting the cheapest quality blu-ray player on earth. The Wii is just making more and more sense. It is what the people want....a good game machine. Imagine if the Wii had blu-ray and cost $500? I wouldn't even consider buying it. But at 25,000 yen and a few good titles it's a return to what gaming used to be and that's more appealing to me right now. Maybe the Wii will be the worst thing to happen to the PS3 in the end....?
japan-games.com we can only pray to Gods (or whatever Diety has the elbow-grease) that the wii will end all life in SONY computer entertainment and prevent World War 3 from happening.
ha ha, I'm probably going to sell my launch unit too. I'm loving what I'm seeing with the PS3 this season, but so many titles have been pushed back, and I kinda.... need the cash at the moment. I can't exactly justify not taking the advantage where the opportunity is present ... I just hope I can get a unit on the 18th. wish me luck! and good luck with your auctions ;-) -Concura
I've been pretty negative on the PS3 too. It's trying to do what the Xbox 360 does and costs a whole bunch more and the 360 already has a year ahead of them. I don't see the point in paying 500 or 600 bucks when you could spend less and still get some high end graphics and processing power or spend even less and go with the Wii. Or spend about the same as just a PS3 and have a 360 and a Wii instead. I do still want to try a Wii before I buy one, but I'll probably buy it anyway and it'll sit there still in the box till I get bored of Gears of War.
I'm sceptic about the Wii for many reasons, but overall I think the problem lies in the context of this situation. We got the same ol'crap (PS3) that console nobody seems to care a lot (X360) and an old favorite yet not so awesome as before (nintendo Wii). Is a "the bad and the worst" scenario, we go for the Wii, even with the step price (for what it is) and the lackluster performance becos the alternative [PS3] is either bad or not so good as it should be. Is like those elections when you got a candidate thats a dumb fuck and another thats just a fascist, and you end up voting for the first even if you dont like it so the second doesnt wins. I see a lot of that in this nextgen. My bet is that the winner of this generation will be the X360. The Xbox already gave excellent results if you think how low the original expectations were, and while the X360 doesnt has even a third of PS3s or Wii's hype, is coming with great games like GoW. But hey, the DC had a lot of must-have games, yet it went down due to lack of hype in the mainstream. We could say the same about the X360 since nobody seem to be crazy about it. Anyway, the only thing we know for sure is that we just dont know how all this is going to end...
Yeah I kind of see 3 different consoles: High End: PS3 Mid Range: 360 Low End: Wii I think the mid-range will appeal to most buyers like me, but then again I might not be the typical buyer. I want more than the Wii and I don't want to pay for the extras of the PS3 so that leaves the 360 being above the bottom and less than the top which is usually the types of items I purchase. While I was getting my PS3 I noticed the blu-ray movies....for $50 each. Worst. Price. Ever. I don't even pay the $30 price for new DVDs here in Japan. I actually don't even pay $20 for a new DVD...heh. But $50? Like I'm going to go out and buy 4 movies for $200. Maybe the price isn't as shocking to the Japanese but as an American I think we compare what else we can get for the same money and there are more options available, such as a weeked trip to friggen Las Vegas (air + hotel).
I dont see a Wii like a low-end, basically becos the $250 MSRP sits very close to X360s $299. The way I see it, the Wii will have a great launch like the N64 did, then after that sales will get lower and lower, to which ninty will lower the Wii's MSRP to $150 or even less. Now, if you see the GC, that price above for the Wii would still give a little profit to nintendo, which at the same time shows they could cut the price as much as they want, since theres a big gap between Wii's $250 and the GC current $99. On the other hand, neither MS or Sony can do that, and thats the reason why MS announced they are going to bundle more stuff with the X360 instead of making a price cut.
I know for me the PS3 is a little to late and way to much. The 360 has almost every game it has and allot more. Add to it I can get a WII and extra games for half the cost. If I did not already have a 360 that would have been my choice this year but since I do I plan on getting a WII. Unless Sony has some big games only for PS3 coming out I plan on passing on this game system. I don't know about everyone else but doesn't the PS3 remind you allot like the 3DO system were price was a contributing factor to its demise?
I wouldn't go as far as to call the 360 mid range compared to the Ps3. There's some magic hardware in the 360 that holds its ground against the PS3, and that is mostly related to memory and GPU. To be on the safe side, give the PS3 6 months/a year, and if it can pull off better visuals (which i personally doubt it can), then I ll buy you a smoothie (assuming I ll visit japan )
Well I was speaking more to the total package price, not really the power of each machine. To get the HD-DVD hard drive for the 360 the price is $200. I really don't want it so I'm not going to pay for it. But Microsoft gave me that option instead of bundling it in and forcing me to buy it. I don't have to pay $200 for an option that I won't use just so I can play PGR3 and other 360 only titles. If Sony could make a scaled down PS3 without the extras for $350 I'd be all over it. I know you have to have the blue-ray for the games but I'm just using my imgination here and showing how I would turn into a Sony consumer if only they didn't force me to have the extra options that I don't want. I just want a game machine to be a game machine...I don't need it to bake muffins, massage my feet, or play movies that I'll never buy.
You're right in that context. The Ps3's high pricetag is something that makes it so less appealing, especially considering there are no titles to push the hardware when you get it in your living room and actually try to play. It's like owning a super car and having no gas to run it.
heh for me it's like going to McDonalds to buy a Big Mac and being forced to buy a pair of shoes to go with it.
we got a ps3 yesterday, and with it some games including ridgeracer, gundam, golf etc... and i must say i am heavily unimpressed by the games. rr6 looks better on 360... than rr7 does on ps3. and i dont get why they again have that unfiltered jaggy sony look. the console itself is cool though, quiet and stuff. looking forward to the games to come. f
