[quote name='jer7583']I better
ing well get to eat my cake if I'm the customer here.[/QUOTE]
Quite true. But many people are making very unreasonable demands. But let's be clear here: it is *Sony* who is doing this to themselves. They caused problems by pricing themselves out of the market, and now they're causing themselves more problems by removing key features as the price of the console dropped $200 in 11 months.
My supposed "meltdown" is not because people want a PS3 with all the bells and whistles; it is because they want a PS3 with all the bells and whistles (EE/Full BC, DualShock, USB, wifi, Blu-Ray, yadda yadda yadda), and they want it **NOW**, and at the price they demand.
It simply can't work that way without doing Sony a great amount of damage in losses (which, again, they have done to themselves). If you want to have the duality that you both want a PS3 and claim they have no games
lol:, what
have you played on the PS3?), then they should have little incentive in getting one in your hands - after all, they won't recover the losses by selling you a console very quickly, seeing as how jaded you are about the console.
It's childish to cry and moan about how you (the royal "you," not you) aren't getting your way. If you want a PS3 now, then pay the going rate. If you want to pay less, then you're going to have to learn to develop the virtue known as patience. Imagine that.
That's as simply as I can put it. The PS3, like every console before it and every console to come after it, will eventually hit the pricepoint you, I, or anyone else will pay. They'll eventually be $15, collecting dust in the corner of a Goodwill somewhere. Just don't expect it to get there anytime soon; I find it unreasonable that people have to act so childish about it; it's as if many folks are collectively throwing a temper tantrum because they can't seem to get over the fact that, if they want what they want NOW, they have little bargaining room over price (save, say, Craigslist).
And I'd like to think I'm a reasonable person in general, though I'll be the first to admit I'm not particularly nice. I think those things are mutually exclusive. A reasonable person, but also a bastard. :lol: