I think that $499 is far too much to pay for any gaming console. For that same ammount of money someone could buy an entire desktop computer, and probably do quite a bit more with it. Since I am not a fan of the Xbox 360 I will definatly get a PS3 but not until the price drops considerably.

That’s a hefty price, but with money saved over the course of four or five months, the price isn’t too audacious.

They will probably get some early adopter idiots who will spend that much, but they’ll definitely have to either lower the price or come up with incentives or rebates to really penetrate the market.

I will buy it a couple years after it’s release at more than half the original price. This is a lil too expensive for me. Ouch!

Sony seems to be relying on its brand name, but is the PlayStation brand name really worth a $200 premium over an Xbox 360?

You’ll be able to play Blu Ray discs with the lesser PS3, by the way, just not in high definition. Which, to my mind, defeats the purpose. Strange decision, as is the decision not to include the proprietary memory stick format.

So the analyst thinks the $499 price is competitive because the controller is wireless and motion sensitive? Well, the Furby sold like gangbusters with those same features…

The premium package is $599, which has all the “good stuff”. As far as I can tell the $499 package isn’t worth it relative to the $599 package, especially since I don’t believe the “core” package would be upgradeable like the xbox 360 is. As a Blu-ray player I would get it, as a gaming console, that comes second. Online content by the way will work like Xbox Live, with some stuff free, and most other stuff on a pre-paid system. For about $4 a month, I very much enjoy my Xbox Live. Games will be about $59.99 and as for this motion stuff, I don’t see it catching on, for Nintendo it will since theirs can separate into 2 handheld controllers, as opposed to adding motion to a pre-existing controller, which is basically what happened. I’ll buy the ps3 just to watch Blu-Ray, if that even catches on. More like a backup to my xbox360.

I am assuming this has a pretty amazing graphics engine? To appreciate this visual output you’re not going to be wiring it up to a $250 TV, but one at at least twice that price. To really make it fun it’ll be hooked up to the 37″ plasma in the living room, at which point the console is only a small part of the electronics bill for the household.

Not for the price… Needs to be a little bit more competitive.

I can’t believe some of the things people are saying. You get a 2,000 dollar plus TV, then hook it up to an expensive 7.1 stereo system, then complain about a $600 one-stop media behemoth that makes it all worth it?

I guess some people would rather spend a hundred or two for that other system that doesnt even have HDMI as a choice for output and wired controllers? *cough*

Ok… if i’m not mistaken, the HD-DVD player that came out a month ago was around $1k… just a the freaking player… i think the manufacturer was samnsung… so… for 600 bucks you get the player, all sorts of multimedia things and a game system? THAT IS GREAT!!

You guys are poorlings… $499 is cheap. Apparently you don’t know about the cell processor and only the best video card ever made which is worth 500 alone, not to mention HD, and BLU-RAY… hey why don’t you look up BLU-RAY player on eBay and see how much it costs? K thanks.

Do I look like I’m an idiot?

Well it is a pretty high price especially when you look at the competition, for the parents out there that buy this for their kids great! But for us that have to work a couple weeks or months to save up for it, its just not worth it and besides who has $600+ cash sitting in their pocket just waiting to spend it, oh but wait americans don’t save we just CHARGE IT! TOO EXPENSIVE for the intended market to me.

That amount of cash would buy my car a lot of gas! Well, maybe not that much actually, but I need the 200 gallons of gas worse than a gaming machine. Sorry Sony.

Although $600 is rather steep (very steep actually), I would have to say that I will buy it. Will I complain about the price, etc? Surely. $600 with tax, extra controller?, and just one game… expensive. But, yes, I will buy it. It seems as though it’s more of a necessity these days. Sad but true.

How long between the release of the game system and the first story of someone being killed for their “new prize” by some gang banger who “just had to have one”?

Patrick:
Please stop calling it a deck this doesn’t go in your car(normally), also turn off CAPS LOCK please.

Ed:
Turn off CAPS LOCK

Everyone Else:
Stop complaining, this system isn’t for a little kiddie. This is some serious gamer sh*t. $499 is a good price for what it offers, and $599 for premium package as well. K thanks.

With the 60Gb drive on it, and some of the other features the implications is that this machine is “a hub” for digital content. I hope the engineers at Sony have thought this one through. Hubs have to stay on to be useful, and this might be in a sundrenched bedroom with no A/C (i.e. when little Leslie is at school)… Anyone at Sony reading this? Wanna comment?

A gaming console that costs over $500??? Games for it costing upwards of $60 each? You’ve got to be kidding me!

The only ones that can put a stop to this madness is the parents. Don’t buy this junk. Get your kids out from in front of the TV and buy them a $10 basketball. That will do more for them in life than any gaming console could ever do. Just my two cents.

Sony > Microsoft

Nintendo Corp = Company that makes kiddie machines that never matches or outdoes in specs but sells due to it’s colorful childish appeal for kids, and it’s childish colorful games.

Reminds me of those pixar/disney/dreamworks 3D animation kid movies that they pump out everyweek and make hundreds of millions on each cause little kiddies beg their parents to go see each one, of course parents love their kids and want them to be quiet and spend some family time so they buy into this big scam that works and sells… It’s all hype… the xbox series seems to have alot of hype associated with it cause it’s fairly new in the scene. Read about all the problems it has and how many non-good titles offered for it. Sony has the crown with it’s playstation series and their titles and it’s been that way for 12 years. Also I

I stopped buying sony products after their rootkit virus was installed on my pc…. good luck.

Way too expensive.

No game console is worth that much, ESPECIALLY one from Sony. I’m never buying anything with “Sony” on it ever again, anyway. Not after the rootkit incident.

people dont need the newest console the second it comes out. i bought my ps2 after 1.5 years of it being relesed it was 50% of the price so stop winning about the price and keep playing the old stuff un till it drops … jeez

No way i would spend half a grand to buy a system, then the games you have to buy.

It’s not worth 6 dollars an hour of a crap job for this.

I could buy a lot of useful machine tools that would help me do more with my time, or spend the money on one dubiously useful machine that is bound to eat a great deal of my time.

Jre who says “Stop complaining, this system isnt for a little kiddie” if this is so then why is the main advertising seen on TV which is PLASTERED all over “kiddie” channels Nick Jr., Cartoon Network, Disney, need I go on? Why is it all targeted to the “kiddies”? I can guarantee you that there are going to be a lot of pissed of “kiddies” come Christmas time and there’s no PS3, cause I sure as hell ain’t gonna spend that kind of money on a stupid video game console. I don’t care what kind of crap it can do and neither does my son, he just wants the cool new games that are plastered all over TV, but he can’t have them cause they can’t be played on the PS2 and even if I were loaded, I still wouldn’t pay $500 or more for this crap!!! My son will grow up knowing that yes video games and consoles are cool and fun just as I did, but that they are not the most important thing in this world, at least not so important that we would run out and buy it. In fact we may just completely get rid of our Sony system and stick with a computer as I am tired of these gaming companies coming out with these new consoles that will play the old games and then slow off on making new games for the old system. I understand this is a business and they have to make money, I feel more money would be made in also supplying to the average person who can’t or won’t become victim to this game!!!! Good luck Sony. Another loyal Sony Customer lost to your greed!!!!

For a game console… 600 is ridiculous.
For a Blu-Ray player/media center… 600 is amazing.

Have you tried watching DVDs on your PS2? Are you really going to want to have that kind of experience with Blu-Ray? Presuming, of course, that Blu-Ray wins the format war(which, given prices… it probably won’t). Moreover, you know any media center capabilities are going to be tied to Sony’s proprietary formats. It won’t be quite as bad as the UMD debacle, but I suspect it may be close.

The Wii is going to be cheap and looks fun as hell. Call it a kiddie box if you want, but it looks fun as hell.

X360… I just don’t find myself compelled to get one. They’re nice, and all… but it just doesn’t feel like it’s worth the price for the quality of the games on it.

Mommy and Daddy will go to the store this holiday to buy little Jimmy a console. They’ll see the price tag on the PS3 and walk right on to the Wii or the 360.

madisgifts:
I am not aware of any television advertising for the Sony PlayStation 3 yet, however I don’t watch much Cable TV(I use BT). But does this mean you are sitting at home watching Nick Jr. and Disney all day? How old are you?

Everyone else:
Stop worshiping money. It is only money, you only live once, buy the console. If it is out of your budget don’t complain about it, Sony is not asking you to buy it. If you can’t afford a gaming console because you don’t make enough money or whatever then you should pick a different hobby. If you don’t want a different hobby(I wouldn’t) get your sh*t together and get a better job to enjoy yourself in life. Ya don’t have to complain about the price of something, GOSH!

No way. First of all, I hate SONY and will never buy from SONY due to their racist advertisement of PSP. I already have an xbox360; im satisfied with Gears of War and ready for HALO 3. Ill probably buy a Wii instead.