do you feel cheated??? $4-$599 PS3 buyers....

with so many variations of the ps3 to have come out since its launch (and this goes for the 80 gig buyers also) do you feel cheated to have paid more for less? i mean now they have 150 gig packs and comming up 250 gig packs. hell son, Japan is getting a 250 gig FFIII bundle for christmas! :shock: do you wish you had waited? do you often.....or not so often think to yourself how unfair life can be!?

I got my PS3 about 8 months after launch for £400. I made the right choice i think

I got my PS3 about 8 months after launch for £400. I made the right choice i think

M0wen10

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I got my PS3 about 8 months after launch for £400. I made the right choice i think

slvrraven9

haha, thats ok. I got a nice 80gb one. However, half a year later I got YLOD, but then they sent me another PS3 bcause it was within the warranty. YLOD is horrible :(

im glad i bought mine when i did because my ps3 is backwards compatable with ps2 games

No, i do not feel cheated.

in the span of when i bought my 80GB to this week's announcements of 250GB consoles, ive put in countless of hours of gaming into 17 games. having that much fun in that long a period made me forget how much i paid for my current gaming setup, which cost me a lot more than $599 given i had to upgrade to an HDTV as well.

besides, i've only used 35GB out of my current console, so the concept of high capacity hard drives don't even cross my mind.

No, i do not feel cheated.

in the span of when i bought my 80GB to this week's announcements of 250GB consoles, ive put in countless of hours of gaming into 17 games. having that much fun in that long a period made me forget how much i paid for my current gaming setup, which cost me a lot more than $599 given i had to upgrade to an HDTV as well.

besides, i've only used 35GB out of my current console, so the concept of high capacity hard drives don't even cross my mind.

I bought the initial PS3 at launch here in the US and I did not pay "more for less" as you put it in the topic post. I paid "more for sooner". Anyone who isn't dumber than a rock knows that you always pay more if you get new technology when it's new. This is true for the newest tech in TV's, computers, MP3 players, phones, sound systems...etc., not just consoles. Anyone who feels cheated now is an idiot for not knowing that the price would go down...

The truth is that I snatched up a PS3 immidiately because I was sure they would strip out BC and for me that's an important feature (athoughI have two PS2's, I don't want to have to have more than one console in my rack). Turns out I was right on the mark with that prediction and I am glad I paid $599 and got it.

And BC is not the only thing they have stripped out of the PS3 since launch. The fact is that those who have the original PS3 actually got more...so if anything we paid "more for more" as well as "more for sooner".:P I'd actually buy a second PS3 if they would re-offer one that has all the features that the original launch PS3 had...and I'd pay $599 for it even. With the current gimped version they are selling, I'm waiting on my second one until I absolutely need one (i.e. the current one dies).

nope. and im a ps3 launch 60gb owner.

but i do feel cheated for the $250 i spent on the wii....it has no games that spark my interest.

I ALSO feel cheated for the 360 with the amount of accessories i had to buy for it in 2005-2006. things llike the $20 official plug and charge kit, $100 wifi-adapter, $50 gold xbox live membership.

That's like asking people who bought the first few personal computers if they felt cheated.hazelnutman

My first PC cost over $6,000 (not including monitor) and it only ran at 60 MHz...what is that by today's standards, like 0.06 GHz?

[QUOTE="hazelnutman"]That's like asking people who bought the first few personal computers if they felt cheated.schesak

My first PC cost over $6,000 (not including monitor) and it only ran at 60 MHz...what is that by today's standards, like 0.06 GHz?

Itsa given that early adopters get screwed over, but thats part of the experience. You get the early (basically prototype version this generation), but you also get to play the games first, and in my case, BC.

I don't regret it, but at the same time I want a slim. I set up the kiosk in our store yesterday and they are a lot prettier than I thought they were.

I bought the 80GB BC MGS4 bundle for $600 off ebay (plus the guy threw in a new copy of LBP for free because I did Buy It Now) and it's been worth every penny so no I don't feel cheated. Oh yeah, and I'm importing the Lightning bundle too :P

I got mine when they launched in the UK and I got the lovely YLOD a couple of months ago, when I rang Sony to arrange a replacement I got speaking to the operator and I asked him if I should go for the new version and he said no - the old backwards compatable ones were worth a lot more

$700 for a 60GB Ps3 but it was worth every penny.

I should have waited....I got a launch a month or 2 after release......First it was annoying playing the waiting game for games to come out,...there was nothing to play back then.......and Second...I would have saved 300 bucks,,,,,cant beat that..

I'm still getting the same great quality of gaming, paid a bit more but got it earlier. I think it's about right.

If anyone feels cheated there fools, its a fact that it was going to go down in price, and they bought it knowing full well it would be cheaper later.

Why should I care about $600 I spent more than two years ago? I do, however, feel a little cheated that I bought it thinking x-box wasn't reliable enough and now my PS3 is broken. Still, I prefer the games on PS3 anyway, just wish I didn't have to shell out for another but i will if that Uncharted 2 bundle comes to my neck of the woods.

Don't feel cheated at all. As technology progresses, most electronic items get cheaper and more powerful. You can always wait and get a better deal next year. But I'd prefer to actually buy something and start enjoying it right away.

I don't feel cheated at all. I only paid $450 for a 60 Gig + Resistance: Fall of Man a couple weeks after launch. No tax either. The only thing I regret to some extent is buying a 250GB internal harddrive for it for like $170 back then. HD's are much cheaper now...

Yeah, I'm sure they felt real cheated. After all, how were early adopters of new technology supposed to know that the price would go down sometime after they bought it. THat has NEVER happened before. Especially with videogame consoles.

not at all....i bought a refurbished 60gb at the right place and at the right time.....i got the best sku of them all.....and i simply upgraded my hard drive on my own to a seagate 500gb. sonycan keep their 320gb.

I love my $599 60gb PS3

spring 2008 i bought a 360 and after two weeks traded it for a one-day-old PS3. and i never went back lol.

I bought mine in December 07, its an 80GB backwads compatibility and it came with MotorStorm for 399$ CDN. I made the right choice at the right time.

The sooner you buy a PS3 the more you pay, however you get to enjoy it for years ahead of people who wait for it to get cheap. So you get what you pay for.

No I don't feel cheated with my launch 60 gig ps3. Things go down in price after time, thats just how things work. I've gotten to play a lot of great games since launch and don't feel cheated at all.

I waited for awhile to get the PS3. I waited for some of those interesting games to ACTUALLY come out, because games I look forward too have a habit of getting randomly canceled.

If I had known Sony was just going to drop backward compatibility when I wasn't paying attention I would have picked up a launch model.

Why would anyone feel bad??? its technology! Buy a laptop now for 1000...in 2 years its half price at least. Same goes for LCD/Plasma TV's. I bought mine for 2000...now its about half that price.

Its inevitible...there's no winning that game. Something will always be better around the corner which drives the prices down.