Simple supply and demand. He had the product, the market set the price, and he profitted. If you don’t like how the free market works, move to China.

Cost of a PS3 4-days before others get it: $2000.

The look on your face when you realise
how buggy and glitchy your new, expensive
1st run hardware is: Priceless.

I wonder, though, how many of those $3000 deals actually went through. I’ve met several people at my local game store who gave up on Ebay after several buyer back-outs.

Consoles are great. No messing about with stupid “minimum system requirements” or being nickle and dimed to death on upgrades to your system to play the latest games.

However, right now, neither of the systems are worth the cost to me. Wait until the 360 drops price, then I’ll buy.

BTW, Sony. Thanks for trying to take advantage of loyal Playstation fans by forcing them to subsidize your little war with HD-DVD if they want your latest system.

I hope Blu-ray goes the way of the Laserdisc and Beta tape!

OK, I really wish people would shut up with the “PC rox consoles sux” crap. I’m a gamer, and pretty hard core, obviously I own a PC, and I play games on it, like all the RTS games. But a lot of games don’t come for PC, a lot of very good games. Frankly, I prefer FPS on a console (yeah a mouse is easier, but easier doesn’t mean better). And you know what? No one hacks there console or runs bots. It’s just a who lot easier to play legitimate competition online on console.

Bottom line, you may have you preference, and perceived advantages of PC over a console, but that doesn’t make those who play console games idiots.

playstations aren’t a basic need for people. think of how much food and medicine could be sent over instead of a ps3, and thin of how much better it would do. reliefers don’t deserve those extras. they can get up, get a job, move, whatever. it isn’t fair those people who have 15 kids, and no job eat better and have nicer things than i do as an engineer. call me an insensitive prick or whatever. but the point is, if i’m gonna help people, give them their basic needs NEEDS first, not all the extras. if they want the extras, they need to pull themselves up. plenty of people will help, but there just as many who will give handouts instead.

and if our troops are in a “military action” they shouldn’t ahve time to paly videogames. they should be finishing up the job. oh…they should only work 8 hours…my arse. terrorists and what not don’t go..ok.. it’s 8:30 now. time ot be terrorists. no. they kill whenever it best suits the situation. i don’t want my defenders to be like…oh wait. one more kill before we go on patrol…or wait till i finish this level before we return fire.

now, disgusted, i think your services would be benfifical over in iraq.

and let the blasting of me begin for not supporting the troops or crap like that…who’s gonna be the first of many flamers?

Your dumb my friend, every Hardcore gamer knows you can’t run anything new on a 3 year old NVIDIA? hahaha. When you know what you’re talking about we’ll talk. Otherwise keep dreaming (playing Starcraft) with that rig.

Loser. (haywood)

Blah blah blah – Yadda Yadda Yadda – Mine is better than yours.. No, Mine is better then yours!

The sad thing here… You are gamers! Get a life.

I think it’s funny to read Gamers saying “You pay $2000 for a console because your lazy..” – “If you really wanted it, it would have been first in line”

Here is a thought… A lot of people have jobs. A lot of people don’t have the time to camp outside a retail store for hours on end just to buy a $600 piece of hardware made by a company how seems to have you all on a peice of string. Sony and Nintendo seem to own you.

Have fun. Get a life.

Disgusted, as an ex-military type (as of last March) I agree with your first and second posts entirely, but I think you shouldn’t let such an obvious troll bait you like that. Calling an anonymous *coward* names on techdirt just makes you look childish– and through you tarnishes the view some might have of our military. (Let’s let the higher ups do that for us) You were trained like the rest of us, use the training.

However, You are dead on with the keyboard courage– he wouldn’t have the courage to say that to any soldier’s face– which is no doubt why he chose to opt out of serving his country– which is his choice. YOUR choice, is to protect his right to be ignorant and childish. Just remember that for every person who thinks anti-war means anti-soldier there are 100 who know how much servicepeople give up to do a shitty job that *has* to be done.

Personally, I find it amazing that he assumes that people in the military are awake and on duty 24/7, but that’s just me. Maybe that’s how engineers work– but from the engineers I know, I doubt it. 🙂

The point is, let him be ungrateful– you be a soldier. You’ll get respect, and he’ll get what’s coming to him. (Like, exile to North Korea?) 😛

I was on a sub, and we had a PS2 and set the Madden game against itself and watched the teams that were supposed to play that day while we ate– you’d be surprised how accurate it is.

second- high-end graphics card

the ps3’s graphics card sucks compared to a high-end pc graphics card.

what about those guys who purchase a game systesm (first in line) and take it out, open it up, and testroy it with a sledgehammer? (www.smashmy[insert console here].com they remove one console from the market. you mad at them?

I’m mad but not as mad as I am at the people that buy them just to resell them. The guys that smash them are not trying to turn a profit, they are just silly and wasting their own money.

Like I said in my last post they were not spending their own money, they spent the money of the poor saps that donated money for that cause… Why wouldn’t you donate money to help someone in need rather than waste money on some purple idiot smashing a PS3 in front of all the others waiting to buy one… See it’s people like him that the insurgents see and think we’re all idiots…Exile to N.Korea for the crackhead Barney please!!!

the guys smashing consoles didn’t waste their money. people donated to their site, and that was the money used to purchase the consoles.

i liked it, because it just goes to show how silly people can be. OMFG you just wasted a precious console. now i won’t get one, and no one will love me, and i’ll never get laid….blah blah blah.

i think the last 2 would be true either way. so yeah.

when’s the next smashmy*.come gonna come out?

You can’t let it go, can you, disgusted? Why must you resort to name calling some coward? You make yourself look like a troll and some army brat who got passed over for a promotion. But that’s just how I see the situiation. Yeah, that coward comes off as an ass. In the same breath, you are no better. He posted that you should post your real name, military branch, and what unit you are assigned to. I think you should also post your rank. I think it would show how you are the better person. Once again, that is just my opinion.

However, I must take one thing away from this. You call the coward a “fat tub of lard” who has “physical and mental limitations” that would prevent him (or her) from joining the military. This may be the case. Have you thought that coward may be a top researcher in the field of AIDS or cancer? Maybe coward is developing the latest weaponry/protective devices you use while on tourh. Maybe his “mental limitaions” are that he is extreamly smart and using his knowldege to protect those soldiers who ARE on the front line? Ok, I may be going a bit too far. By making assumptions, it does look bad. IMHO, coward is some oaf who plays DnD and l ives in his parent’s basement. But then again, I have no true way of knowing. It’s just like me thinking that you may not be a member of the military. You might just be another fat oaf who hides behind the pretend cloak of “I am a military man” because we have no way of confirming that you are indeed a military man (or woman). I know it’s hard, try and see something from this cowards eyes.

I guess my point is, you may think you have all the facts, but you don’t. I know I don’t. Now, please, for the love of this country start acting like the “brave, proud soldier” that you say you are.