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Originally posted by DarkMaster
This is not a video game console. It is a home entertainment system made by Sony, not SCE, Sony the electronics company. Adding the ability to play PS2 games does not make it a "video game console with extra things in it". It's exactly the opposite. The ability to play PS2 games was added because of the Playstation name (as a selling point) and to add more variety to the PSX's multiple features.
Regardless of whether this will or will not be the main idea that PS3 and Xbox2 will incorporate, that's still no reason to call an "all-in-one home entertainment system" stupid just because it somewhat associates with video games. Save you judgments and remarks for when the features of the next gen consoles are actually announced, rather than come right out and apply that they will be crap for no apparent reason.
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THANK YOU! well said.
I estimate through long observation that Sony will launch the PS3 at a $299-$349 price tag (unless the US dollar goes bananas
or something). That price point has proven to be very successful, and I don't see them straying away from it. At a $299 price tag, I'm content with a great, promising next gen GAMING SYSTEM. If it has extras, then it's a bonus for all I care. I do believe that Sony will release more multi-featured hardware not unlike the PSX after the PS3 is released (that is, if the PSX proves to be successful).
PS2 plays games......Gamecube plays games
PS2 plays CDs, DVDs.......Gamecube does not
If you don't want to utilize the CD/DVD playback feature, you simply don't. I can't possibly see how that could be considered a negative unless it drives the price tag way up (which it doesn't).