The Shrine

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Oh hells yes. We all know that for all practical purposes, this doubles as an announcement from Sony that they will drop their price to the same or lower at around the same time.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>It's the perfect price for them. Same as the DC. Sony I'm not so convinced will match, but they should drop to $249. If they do drop it to $199, expect Nintendo to go down to $149 for sure. There's just more perceived value in the PS2</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Let's just hope they aren't forced to go too low too quickly. And if they do, it'll likely involve cutting corners and using shitty parts in some form.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>They eat the costs anyway. I heard Microsoft will lose $300 (or it was $50, can't quite remember) on each Xbox they sell.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Hell, they can dip into Gate's 30mile deep pockets if they have to.. They got a LOT more going for them than Xbox.

Makes ya wonder though,, what are they preparing for? You don't eat costs because you love your public.. no,, you do it to get them hooked, so when your next huge product comes out they won't think twice about getting it,,, something's goin down in the long term</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica; text-align: left; '>I haven't found much value in my PS2 beyond playing DVDs and old PS1 games.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial; text-align: left; '>MGS2 will be a hell of a use, let me assure you.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>But it's not enough for people like me to justify buying the system.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>No company makes money on the hardware. Sony and Nintendo won't either. What they make money on is the licensing.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial; text-align: left; '>I dunno, man...the E3 trailer they showed at the show was really, really convincing.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica; text-align: left; '>The playable demo's been out for over a month now. It's alright... nothing more than MGS1 with better graphics though.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>$300 + $50 = no thank you. It's way to early for me to commit to a system. I'm too cheap and too wishy-washy.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica; text-align: left; '>Bah, I just thought I'd combine my PSX with a DVD player to save space under my TV. :)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>Yes it was</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>Well, for the first 2 years they don't make money. Of course, Sega claimed to make $1 per DC off the bat and Nintendo claims they won't lost money either, but that's horse shit. They will for the first year at least</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Yah, it won't help their losses on hardware any. But it does lessen the losses by far when they use shitty parts or cheap labor.</div>