PS3 to be released at $499/$599 & E499/E599

[DanS]

Nintendo is trying some interesting things. I don't know whether they will succeed, but it's nice to see some creativity in video games at a reasonable price. Reminds me of a cheap version of the Collecovision when it came out. A really fun console with several neat controllers.

[Q Classic]

Nintendo is really trying to be the Apple of the console world. The logo, the design...

Bad name aside, they've got the presentation down right, they've got the cultish fan base, and they've got the press eating out of their hands.

Of course, this has always been the case, but damn, if it's not really noticeable this time around.

[Tattila the Hun]

Oooo, I get a mental image of lonely gamer girls using that rumble-feature for something else than it was intended for...

Suspiciously lonely, since they are young and hot, slim and stacked. 's the way my mind works. Not often that logical.

Wii, or whatever Ninty ends up calling it, does seem like the top dog for me.

And DS's linup is way impressive...

And 500$ is like 390€. What bollocks. I blame GWB. Importing sounds like a good idea...

Wasn't one of the next gen machines region free, for games?

[Vesayen]

This is a brilliant move by Sony, they see the trend.

Die hards will line up in DROVES to buy it when it is first released... a week after release, they cut the price to their competition.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Heh... Sony is NOT cutting prices a week after release. Unless they want to royally piss off their base who lined up early. They have to wait close to a year to cut prices or else they'll have a massive backlash by those who bought it first.

And the Blu-ray makes their console far more expensive to produce.

So, no... they won't be lowering price anytime soon. And it's a baaaad move.

[Elok]

Oh well. The only advantage I saw in Sony was their keeping the classic PS controller--much better than whatever clunky POS came with the X360, I'm sure. That's pretty much the only thing Sony really did right that others haven't imitated, a controller whose buttons are all in easy reach, that fits the hands comfortably, and that doesn't look like a rough-hewn rock. But now Sony's turning the controller into more of a boomerang shape, aren't they?

Eh, it's not like I'm gonna buy any of them anyway.

[Kassiopeia]

The PS3 controller will be identical in shape to the PS1 and PS2 controllers.

[Elok]

Really? I thought they were making it more rounded, sort of like half a steering wheel or something.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Not only that, but the X360's controller is absolutely perfect.

[Verto]

And the Xbox controller and GameCube controller both were just as easy to use, IMO, as the Playstation.

[Jon Shafer]

The final PS3 controller is actually almost identical to the PS2 Dual Shock (minus the rumble feature and plus a few things, like bluetooth and an internal gyroscope). This was just announced in fact.

[Kuciwalker]

Well, the smaller Xbox controller at least.

[Jon Shafer]

Errr... wow, didn't see that coming...

[Elok]

Absolutely perfect? Unlike, say, the original Xbox controller, with those two little black and white buttons way out in Timbuktu? I don't know what kind of crackhead decided to put those there. With the PS controller you just have to move your thumbs a little bit to access all the buttons and sticks except for the start and select. A good deal more comfortable in my experience as well.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Trip
Errr... wow, didn't see that coming...

Didn't see what?