# Will you buy a Playstation 3 at release? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989 "2006-07-25T18:25:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Professor\_Farnsworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Professor\_Farnsworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Professor_Farnsworth)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/21 "2006-07-26T05:40:50Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] If they release Zelda: The Twilight Princess with the release of the Wii, I will end up buying the Wii. [/QUOTE] You do know that Nintendo is releasing Twilight Princess concurrently on both the Wii AND Gamecube, right? The Wii version will have beefed up graphics and compatibility with the motion remote (fishing, swinging sword, etc.), but will be essentially the same. [cite](http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/thelegendofzelda/news.html?sid=6149675&mode=previews) As to the OP: There’s no way I’m buying the PS3 at the $599 price tag, even if the games _are_ phenomenal graphically. I just don’t have that sort of money to blow. I’m banking on my little brother buying a Wii, then playing the hell out of it when I’m back at home for Xmas. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/22 "2006-07-26T06:07:50Z")
No way. I can’t buy a PS3 at release. I gotta sleep under a roof and eat. I like having the new sports games, though, so I’ll probably get one eventually. > [@Cleophus](#): > > At $600 for a console, it better give me a blowjob while I’m playing. “A five-dollar shake? Does it have heroin in it or something?” FWIW, if anyone replaces their old consoles with a PS3 I’ll gladly take/buy the old one. Seriously. I haven’t been allowed to play videogames since the Dreamcast’s demise and I’m finally moving out of the rents’ house this week and I’ll need a console–any console! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/23 "2006-07-26T06:13:57Z")
I expect the price to come down fairly quickly. So no, I won’t be plonking down my chips to get a PS3 at earliest opportunity. I have plenty of PS1 and PS2 games, and I have some SNES games that have been re-released for the PS1 (Final Fantasy games, mostly). I’ll wait to see what new games come out for the PS3, and see how much the price comes down. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/24 "2006-07-26T07:04:57Z")
I agonized for _months_ over the decision to buy a Super NES. I knew that the day would come that NES games simply weren’t available anywhere anymore. I knew that the Super NES came with a ton of support…joystick, Game Genie, guides, you name it. It was cheap, too, barely $10 more than what my parents put out for the NES. I thought the NES was an awesome system for every day I owned it, and, dollar-for-dollar, nothing matched it in entertainment value. It was tough to move past it. Real tough. I rented one awesome game after another for the Super NES. A few clunkers, but overall, it was a great deal. And up to almost the very end, not a week passed where I didn’t ask myself if I did the right thing. I will not be buying a PS3. Ever. Because at this point, it’s not about entertainment, it’s about one-upmanship. The PSX was a cool system with a ton of great games. The Dreamcast and PS2 were the same _with_ arcade-quality graphics. For $600 (and I remind everyone that that’s just for starters…you really think you get get by without a Codebreaker and a special controller, much less a memory card?), what improvement am I getting? I have no use for online play (and did you notice that for all its importance, everyone who actually plays online seeminly has nothing but complaint after complaint?), I’m _tired_ of the debates over which system’s gee-whiz graphics are the gee-whizziest, I’m not really into insanely complicated strategy or action games, I _stink_ at every 3D fighting game imaginable, and I already have a **good** online service, thank you very much. It’ll be interesting to see what exactly the market for this system is. IMO, if games the caliber of Dynasty Warriors 5, Gran Turismo 4, Contra: Shattered Soldier, and Time Crisis 3 can’t make you happy, you probably can’t be made happy. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/25 "2006-07-26T11:08:19Z")
Considering that USD $599 means nearly a thousand bucks here, I’ll pass. I can get a brand new PC with that amount of money! ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/26 "2006-07-26T11:37:16Z")
I will buy one, if they are available. Most likely they won’t have enough in stock and a lot of people have already pre-ordered it. Sure, it is expensive, but so is a Blue-Ray player. And since the fact that they are going to release an Ultimate Blue-Ray Edition of BladeRunner, I will absolutely want one. Plus, they have the proper support to launch some excellent games. BTW: I already have an Xbox360 and like it very much. The only problem I have is that the games are too short, which is being caused by the games being released on DVD. DVD’s just aren’t big enough to store the massive amounts of data necessary for HD gaming. So, in short, yes, I will buy one at launch, if possible. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/27 "2006-07-26T11:38:43Z")
[QUOTE=ExtraKun] Considering that USD $599 means nearly a thousand bucks here, I’ll pass. I can get a brand new PC with that amount of money! [/QUOTE] I don’t think you will be able to buy a PC with those specs for less then thousand bucks. You will probably need to buy at least 2 high-end videocards at 400 USD a piece. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/28 "2006-07-26T11:57:23Z")
[QUOTE=Scoundrel Swanswater] I don’t think you will be able to buy a PC with those specs for less then thousand bucks. You will probably need to buy at least 2 high-end videocards at 400 USD a piece. [/QUOTE] It’s possible to get a high-end, dual-cell processor pentium 4 PC (3 ghz), with a high end graphics card, 1 GB RAM and the ability to play mostly newly released cutting edge 3d games at about 1,500 Singaporean dollars here. DIY is your friend 🙂 Sure, it’s nothing compared to a PS3, but a PC allows me to do more than gaming. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/29 "2006-07-26T15:32:26Z")
[QUOTE=Scoundrel Swanswater] And since the fact that they are going to release an Ultimate Blue-Ray Edition of BladeRunner, I will absolutely want one. [/QUOTE] I absolutely love Blade Runner. Great movie. I forwarded the Slashdot article on the re-release to my friends. I, however, don’t love any movie $600 worth. When Blu-ray players drop to $100, I’ll pick one up but I can’t see replacing a already excellent format with a slightly better one (and I don’t have the screen to take advantage of it right now anyway). My only complaint with DVD is that they’re too fragile, susceptible to fingerprints & such. Yeah, I know the PS3 adds the Blu-ray to your environment but I can’t see using it for that any more than I use our PS2 for a DVD player now, even though they share the same screen. I like having a cheapie DVD player for movies only. This puts the wear-and-tear on what’s effectively a disposable device. Blade Runner will be out on standard DVD, too, I’m sure. The only reason, IMO, that movies are getting released on Blu-ray now is that Sony just happens to own a movie company. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/30 "2006-07-26T16:28:35Z")
I probably will wait a good year or so for a PS3. I’m thinking of getting a Wii or one of the older nintendo consoles, they have some exclusives that I kinda miss like the mario series. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/31 "2006-07-26T21:04:44Z")
I’ll probably get one for Christmas. I have an original Playstation, and an original PS2 and this will complete the set. $600 _is_ a bit steep, but I can afford it. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/32 "2006-07-26T21:24:23Z")
I have no interest in the Playstation series, with the sole exception of Tekken. I want to get the Wii, but only for Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Even then, I’m going to wait until it’s decently cheap, as I have no desire to pay multiple hundreds of dollars for the system, the peripherals, and the game. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989/33 "2006-07-26T22:29:33Z")
I suppose I might get a PS3 eventually, but certainly not at launch. Probably I’ll get a Wii at launch, for Zelda if nothing else. It seems to me that the PS3 is just coming out too early in the life cycle of blu-ray, where the PS2 hit the DVD market just at the right time. Added to that, I really don’t think most people are going to care very much about the improvement of blu-ray DVDs over current DVDs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-buy-a-playstation-3-at-release/365989.md?page=1)