details on how to spend $600 on a freaking videogame machine
Sony announced additional disappointing details about the upcoming Playstation 3 today:
- It’s expensive, just like they hinted — $499 gets you the 20GB model, $599 gets you the 60GB model. That would be about right if this was 1993 and we were all still using SCSI hard drives. That’s a $100 premium for 40GB additional space? $100 should get you at least 250 GB of additional space.
- It launches on November 17th in the US, just in time for Annual Gift Man.
- The online service is a rip-off of Microsoft’s XBox live, and you can buy stuff using it, supposing you have any money left after Sony holds you upside down and shakes the money out of your pockets.
- The controller is a rip-off of Nintendo’s Wii controller. It’s also dull as dry toast.
- The PlayStation 3 font is still apparently the “Spider-Man” font. Does Sony not have any other fonts installed?
- It hooks into the Sony PSP in some nebulous, ill-defined fashion. Something about downloading PlayStation 1 games to your PSP, which is great if you’ve been dying these past ten years for another round of Battle Arena Toshinden.
~jeff
May 11th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
It was revealed today that that $100 gets you more than just the disk space. It also gets you, you know, like, networking and stuff.
You know, the other stuff that the Wii gives you in the $200 package.