14th September 2006, 2:34 PM
About what I expected (I was suspicious of the "less than $250" quote from the start, I know there's a quote of me saying "well 249.99 is less than 250" around here somewhere), but not quite what I was hoping.
At any rate, here we go again. More than I would think given the small increase in power (everyone seems to be saying that aside from upping clock speed and RAM it's the same system, though hey maybe they at least added some new instruction sets for hardware supported new graphical methods), but it's still the cheapest by a decent margin and you don't lose out on some "uber" model for getting it.
The question is, are they including Wii Sports at a loss, just the price of the disk and nothing more, or are they putting the price of the game into that system's tag? If it's the former then the extra game is a freebie. The latter, and yeah ABF is right, they should have given us a choice.
At any rate, here we go again. More than I would think given the small increase in power (everyone seems to be saying that aside from upping clock speed and RAM it's the same system, though hey maybe they at least added some new instruction sets for hardware supported new graphical methods), but it's still the cheapest by a decent margin and you don't lose out on some "uber" model for getting it.
The question is, are they including Wii Sports at a loss, just the price of the disk and nothing more, or are they putting the price of the game into that system's tag? If it's the former then the extra game is a freebie. The latter, and yeah ABF is right, they should have given us a choice.
"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)