Fruit Machine Chat

MrRed · Post by **MrRed** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:06 pm

Come on then did anyone buy a PS3???

Verdicts from those who did
I was gonna get one but held back
I am interested in the Blu-Ray player they have, more tbh

rollem · Post by **rollem** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:06 pm

What a rip off!

itsme · Post by **itsme** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:02 pm

i would love to get one but im not paying that amount..

jimmymac · Post by **jimmymac** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:18 pm

bet the guys that queued overnight and got given a free £2500 HD tv for their trouble were pretty happy

bat_fink · Post by **bat_fink** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:47 pm

Don't see the point when you can buy a US version for 200 notes less and then just buy the US games for it (also cheaper then the European ones). Still plays region 5 DVD's anyway

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:19 pm

Sony are about to release a Blu-Ray player for about half the price if that's all you're interested in.

Wait for it to come down. Sony are playing a rather dangerous game at the moment, mostly because they don't want to hurt sales of the PS2. which is still selling pretty well. Once that curve has dropped off, the PS3 will come down.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=23708

A fair number of titles that were going to be released soon after launch have been put back too. The opinion seems to be that this is because the publishers see no reason in rushing out a buggy version when so few consoles have been sold, so they're spending from now until Christmas making them better.

Hangmanfan · Post by **Hangmanfan** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:46 am

jimmymac wrote:bet the guys that queued overnight and got given a free £2500 HD tv for their trouble were pretty happy

And a free taxi home apparently...

Total rip-off though. The Japs only had to pay the equivalent of £250 I believe. Shocking.

merlin · Post by **merlin** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:25 am

They'll go down in price, i'm not that impressed with the release titles anyway except maybe ridge racer.

I remember buying the Nintendo 64 round about it's release for £250, 2 months later it goes for £150, then maybe a few months later £100, games come down, more games available then it went down to £50.

In retrospect except for mario 64 and goldeneye it was fairly s*** anyway lol.

mjd · Post by **mjd** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:42 pm

I think you have to be pretty mad to buy one at the current price!
The wait is on...

merlin · Post by **merlin** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:50 pm

I think this article on msn says it all:

http://money.uk.msn.com/guides/salaryce ... id=4384964

mjd · Post by **mjd** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 1:04 pm

yep, insane is the word!

Terry Tibbs · Post by **Terry Tibbs** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:40 am

why bother with Blu-ray so soon anyway?

knowone knows if it's going to be around this time next year.

could be Betamax 2