ps3 commemartive straight

[celticstone]

hey bill why dont you make a jet black straight with the playstation 3 logo on it, put it on your site and see if 100,00 people stampede over each other to get one. Right now you could probably put a $2 grand price on it and would sell like hot cakes.

[Blade Wielder]

Best... thread... ever.

[FiReSTaRT]

Can you say "Copyright violation"?

[JLStorm]

you have to wonder though...how many people that pride themselves on shaving with a straight actually know what a PS3 is or plan to get one?

[mparker762]

Well, I know what one is, but I'm opting for a wii60. Just brought my wii home tonight!

Just finished a wild-west run in "rayman raving rabbids" shooting bunnies with my toilet-bowl-plunger gun. Great fun, great fun.

[urleebird]

I don't have the slightest idea what you guys are talking about.

[JerseyLawyer]

I don't have the slightest idea what you guys are talking about.

Sony's new video game system.

Incidentally, their accounting people should be shot. I think they lose money on every unit they sell at the moment, and the things are going to be scarcer than cabbage patch dolls.

The funnier thing is the people willing to pay $1000 for them on ebay.

[mparker762]

The list price on these things is $600. The price of just the components is estimated at $800+. Sony is selling these things at a pretty big loss, but the market size at the $1000 they need to make a profit is too small, they have to get a lot of systems out there at any price in order to have enough of a customer base for developers to bother writing games for it (Microsoft's Xbox360 launched last year and has already sold 6-7 million system, so sony's playing catch-up).

The PS3 also includes a Hi-Definition Blu-ray player. Sony owns the rights to blu-ray, and is trying to make it the standard hi-definition DVD player which obviously means big bucks down the road for their movie business and their audio-video business. There's a competing format called HD-DVD, and and sony is determined not to repeat their betamax debacle. So they're willing to take a big loss on this thing in the beginning in order to crack open a lot of different markets.

Personally, I don't care what gadgets and whatzits it comes with, or how expensive the hardware inside is. $600 is insane for a game system. The Nintendo Wii is only $250 which is more like it, and that motion-sensing controller is pure sex. The controller looks like a remote, and you just point it at the screen to shoot things, or swing it like a tennis racket or a golf club, or punch with it in a boxing game.

[Blade Wielder]

One-thousand? They're going for several times that on eBay, actually! A couple of days ago I caught the last couple of minutes of an auction for one of them. One second it was at $2555.00 -- the next, $3000.00.

They've gone a lot higher than that, too. I was told one went for $10,000.00 the other day.

[FiReSTaRT]

That kid should have used that money to clean himself up, get lipo, a few facials and a girlfriend or 5. $10,000 for a gaming system