Come on, ten years??
Well the system must be different over were you are. But here, your likely to pay around 50% of the original price 12 months later. Even less if you trade in your old console.
Here your mad to buy a console straight after release, Its people like you that the developers love so they can overprice there [Poor language removed], and they know you wont think before paying a out a grand for something that just isnt worth it.
And besides, you have to wait 12 months before you see any decent titles come out for the system anyway when the rest of the games designers catch up and know what the system can do.
I think were poles apart here mate.
I just dont care about saving a few bucks and have to wait nearly a year to do so.
I'm intelligent enough to know the ps3 for instance is vastly overpriced, and Ill-concieved for this moment in time.
And I would never pay £400+ to play games.
So yeah if people wanna pay that then they are letting the execs get away with it.
Here in the uk no console has ever been a huge success with a price point above £300.
Historically £150-£250 is the kind of margin the public will part with in mass numbers for their consoles.
Whether sony or microsoft want to try and push this figure higher its up to them, but right now the public dont seem to be going for it, and I dont think they will until inflation and expendible income dictates it, by which time in real terms the price point will effectively be the relative equivalent of £150-£250.
So given that, you may understand why I was satisfied to pay £179 for my wii!
Ive been playing games since '83-'84.
Maybe I'm looking at things from a different perspective than you.
Especially considering the price of games.
For instance in the early nineties I remember paying £40 for for an average sega nintendo home console game, and £30 for a gameboy/gamegear game.
15 years later I can now buy quite a few wii games from supermarkets for £35 and less on the day of release, and ds games for £25 and less.
I could save money If I waited, but I'm not patient enough, and Ive been playing games long enough to know if I'm being ripped off.
Buy yourself a wii, then buy 'zelda twilight princess' or 'mario galaxy'.
Look at the man hours that go into to such games, look at the sheer imagination and creativity, and genius.
Finish the games, and THEN tell me you feel ripped off.
If people wanna pay £40 for disney licenses etc, then they will be invariably ripped off, but if your informed in what you buy, I believe you can still be an early adopter and not get ripped off, and more to the point give your cash to the developers that deserve it.
And you are calling us geeks!!