26th May 2005, 5:47 PM
(A note about the DVD remote, that's sold seperatly even with the Playstations, you just use the system controller as a remote without it.)
While your math isn't off, I would say there is a small fallacy in what you group into the packages.
Well okay, there's also a few things you got wrong, though I may be wrong myself I'm just going from what I currently know about this generation.
XBox Live isn't 50 a month, it's 50 a year. That's a big difference. There is NO way I'm paying 50 a month just to play a game online, and no way they could justify such a fee. Even MMORPGs cap the price to 15 a month max. From what I understand about the 360 Gold Package, it's still 50 a month.
Sony isn't actually offering a net service like MS is. They are letting their guys do what they want. I haven't heard anything yet to counter this, so I'm going with how the PS2 is doing online. It's basically doing the same thing Nintendo is doing, only companies actually want to make online games for them.
So what I'm saying is Sony does free online in the sense that if a company makes a game with free online play, that's all there is to it. For example, I have Resident Evil Outbreak (a game with a message, and that message is "buy a hard drive"). It's a very fun game by the way lazy :D. Anyway, the online is totally free. They don't get any support from Sony, they have to pay for their own servers, but it's still all free. I also have SOCOM. Again, it's free, but the company has to pay for it's own servers. Anyway, the downside is matchmaking is only good for those who are actually PLAYING the game right then, as opposed to XBLive where you can invite people playing OTHER games.
Anyway, the hard drive prices are about right, based entirely on the price they are selling the PS2 hard drive at. The only issue is if they will be selling the HDs seperatly or including them in the box. That means your minimum price should take that into account and drop the HD price. There's also the matter of wondering what Nintendo is doing in that regard. They may end up using a massive memory card in place of a hard drive, but the question comes up, will they include it?
The other issue is the memory card thing. Currently, the biggest memory card you can get for the Gamecube is about 25 to 30, right? I'm not certain, but it's higher than 20. Considering the massive size we may be talking about (the system should support even the largest SD cards, which would weigh in at a few gigs, and those would be the ones I'd be after). So the min MAY be right if they actually get the mem card that low, but the max could be a lot higher if you go all out with a massive SD card.
I'll end by saying I'm pretty sure no one is interested in the DVD kits at this point. Anyone that's going to be buying this stuff at launch is the sort who already has a DVD player, unless they are giving it as a gift, in which case they are the sort who have already bought a DVD player for their spoiled brats.
While your math isn't off, I would say there is a small fallacy in what you group into the packages.
Well okay, there's also a few things you got wrong, though I may be wrong myself I'm just going from what I currently know about this generation.
XBox Live isn't 50 a month, it's 50 a year. That's a big difference. There is NO way I'm paying 50 a month just to play a game online, and no way they could justify such a fee. Even MMORPGs cap the price to 15 a month max. From what I understand about the 360 Gold Package, it's still 50 a month.
Sony isn't actually offering a net service like MS is. They are letting their guys do what they want. I haven't heard anything yet to counter this, so I'm going with how the PS2 is doing online. It's basically doing the same thing Nintendo is doing, only companies actually want to make online games for them.
So what I'm saying is Sony does free online in the sense that if a company makes a game with free online play, that's all there is to it. For example, I have Resident Evil Outbreak (a game with a message, and that message is "buy a hard drive"). It's a very fun game by the way lazy :D. Anyway, the online is totally free. They don't get any support from Sony, they have to pay for their own servers, but it's still all free. I also have SOCOM. Again, it's free, but the company has to pay for it's own servers. Anyway, the downside is matchmaking is only good for those who are actually PLAYING the game right then, as opposed to XBLive where you can invite people playing OTHER games.
Anyway, the hard drive prices are about right, based entirely on the price they are selling the PS2 hard drive at. The only issue is if they will be selling the HDs seperatly or including them in the box. That means your minimum price should take that into account and drop the HD price. There's also the matter of wondering what Nintendo is doing in that regard. They may end up using a massive memory card in place of a hard drive, but the question comes up, will they include it?
The other issue is the memory card thing. Currently, the biggest memory card you can get for the Gamecube is about 25 to 30, right? I'm not certain, but it's higher than 20. Considering the massive size we may be talking about (the system should support even the largest SD cards, which would weigh in at a few gigs, and those would be the ones I'd be after). So the min MAY be right if they actually get the mem card that low, but the max could be a lot higher if you go all out with a massive SD card.
I'll end by saying I'm pretty sure no one is interested in the DVD kits at this point. Anyone that's going to be buying this stuff at launch is the sort who already has a DVD player, unless they are giving it as a gift, in which case they are the sort who have already bought a DVD player for their spoiled brats.
"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)