Quote Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn View Post
I still don't like it. I'm connected all the time, too, but what happens if my internet goes down? I can't play my single player games. I don't like that at all. If they want to institute some kind of system that has a one time activation per game and you need to be on the internet to do that activation, that's fine...but I shouldn't be required to be connected all the time.
Understandable. For me, when my internet goes out, the last thing I'm concerned with is playing my game. I'm busy checking the router and cable modem, trying to figure out why the hell the internet went out. But I completely understand your position and opposition to it.


Quote Originally Posted by Rudy View Post
I won't be buying a console on day one and I waited over a year to get my PS3. I do have a hard time believing a PS4 would only cost $400. There would be some huge losses if sold at that price. They are still charging $250 for the PS3! The math is fuzzy there. Sony and MS lost a boatload of money the first 3-4 years on these consoles. Overall the console business hasn't made them much money this generation. Sony did win the Blu Ray war but I'm not sure the philosophy of losing $100 on a console at launch is a good idea anymore.
Yeah, if they charged only $400 at launch, from the details that have been released thus far, it sounds like Sony would be taking a bath from day one on the PS4 just like they were with the PS3. Would they really do that to themselves for a second straight launch? A second straight console?


Quote Originally Posted by jaymo76 View Post
Count me in as a person who will NOT BE buying a new console on day one. The cost is a factor but I still have bad memories of the move to next gen. I will take a wait and see approach this time.
Quote Originally Posted by bdoughty View Post
Did not buy a 360 at launch, in fact I waited about a year to make the plunge. Will have plenty of time to decide on what next gen console to get. Best part is all of the launch/early released games are much cheaper by that time.
Same here. I didn't even buy my 360 until 2009, so it was cheaper, the fuck-ups and problems had largely been fixed, and I was able to get a load of games right away for cheap prices, as bdoughty said, because they had already been sitting on shelves for years and dropping in value.

Even if the 720 comes out this fall, I only just got my new 360 Slim (to replace my old 360 with the constantly dying disc drive) a year ago. I'm gonna get a hell of a lot more of a year or two of use out of it for the price. Even if it comes out later this year, it's not going to be, at a very minimum, winter 2015, probably not even until sometime 2016 before I look at buying the next-gen Xbox.