12th July 2006, 1:31 PM
After thinking about it, I realized that's probably true for me as well.
Consider: My desire to buy one is capped by the price of the thing not being equal to the value I place in the few games I'm currently interested in. As such, I would likely only buy it if the price dropped. Due to the sheer expense of the device, that is likely to not happen for a few years at least, and if others are also not willing to get it during that time, then very few desirable games are going to be made for the system. As such, the price will drop due to the lack of demand and a need to clear up shelf space (as has occured with countless doomed systems in years past, I remember the $30 Virtual Boys just before they vanished altogether). This WOULD be the point where I would get it, assuming that when I got ultra cheap system, the few games I wanted were still being seld, ultra cheap themselves, brand new. If not, then it's to a used game store to pick one up, NOT, because if they are all "used", they have already been assigned to a system, and who knows if I'll actually be able to mix and match? I'd have to get a "locked set", a whole new style of selling used games where all used games played on one system are now, as a standard model, bundled together with the system proper.
Then I realized mod chips exist, and this would probably be seriously worth modding over.
Consider: My desire to buy one is capped by the price of the thing not being equal to the value I place in the few games I'm currently interested in. As such, I would likely only buy it if the price dropped. Due to the sheer expense of the device, that is likely to not happen for a few years at least, and if others are also not willing to get it during that time, then very few desirable games are going to be made for the system. As such, the price will drop due to the lack of demand and a need to clear up shelf space (as has occured with countless doomed systems in years past, I remember the $30 Virtual Boys just before they vanished altogether). This WOULD be the point where I would get it, assuming that when I got ultra cheap system, the few games I wanted were still being seld, ultra cheap themselves, brand new. If not, then it's to a used game store to pick one up, NOT, because if they are all "used", they have already been assigned to a system, and who knows if I'll actually be able to mix and match? I'd have to get a "locked set", a whole new style of selling used games where all used games played on one system are now, as a standard model, bundled together with the system proper.
Then I realized mod chips exist, and this would probably be seriously worth modding over.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)