Blu-Ray
Player/Game System/Cash Sink
Cost of average Blu-Ray
player:
$1,000.00
Cost of average game console:
$300-500.00
Cost of PS3 (combine
Blue-ray cost to console cost and then read)
$600.00
Think about that. "It's cheap for what you get."
...and you get what you pay for.
My point is: You're not getting a Blu-Ray
player for 600 bucks. You're getting it for considerably less after you factor in all the other parts. More like $300-400. and that leaves the game system coming in at 200-300 dollars.
How good do you think a 300-400 dollar blu-ray
player is going to be? If not? How cheaply made is the gaming system?
If a regular
blue-ray costs almost double the whole PS3 package, either the
player is bare-bones and made of shoddy materials (common for Sony) or all the other Blu-ray players are vastly over-priced, over-hyped and aren't worth the
money (very likely).
Either way, Sony is
cutting HUGE corners somewhere in this thing.
PS2 had one of the worst DVD players on Earth. Why? Because it was an add on. A secondary feature. Only now the secondary feature over-shadows the main event!
PS3 is made to appeal to gamers looking for an image-enhancing system. The flashier and most expensive = the best.
PS3 is doing so badly and is such a
nasty mess, that most game companies have already pulled out of exclusive deals and taken their games multi-platform because of the
orgasm of bad ideas, practices and ridiculous greed of Sony.
Sony fanboys praise the system as being the most powerful despite the lack of good games.
Which would hold more value if these same fanboys didn't claim that "power wasn't everything" last generation, when the PS2 was weaker than XBox (and the same for XBox fanboys)but had better games.
Sorta proves they really don't have any particular qualifications for best system, other than "Sony/
Microsoft made it"
The PS3 is like a nice
car that comes with an airplane.
You want the
car but, you have to buy the airplane and the airplane costs way more than the car. Then you need an airport to use it (Hi-Def TV)
The
extra feature overshadows the primary concern.
Sony has marketed the PS3 as a computer system.
The problem is, Sony already makes computers! I could buy a Vaio cheaper and do more with it.
