Sure it is. In 2006, one 2024 PS3 would be worth about 14.2% of a 2006 PS3. Today, one 2006 PS3 is worth almost 10 2023 PS3s. Using a 2006 PS3, you could buy around 2,857 eggs in 2023. The 2023 PS3 could have only purchased 779 eggs in 2006. You'd only need a little over 14 2006 PS3s to buy an uncustomized Olivia 2.0 from RealDoll, and 96 2023 PS3s. That is exactly how inflation works.
PS6 or whatever they call the next Playstation will unironically be over $1,000 if Microsoft does actually exit the console space. I know you guys hate Microsoft but it's legitimately the worst thing that can happen if they lave.
That would be dumb. Im playing on consoles purely because its cheaper and easier. They still will have to compete with PC and at 1000$ price even normies will say frick off and go to switch or PC
but we must take risks to reap the rewards. And we're certainly not interested in gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks
Arrogance, also sony only wins if the completion fricks up.
When Nintendo gets their shit together like they did with the Wii and Switch, Sony gets BTFO.
The PS3 was the cheapest Blu-ray player you could buy when the format launched. They were counting on that making up the difference for conflicted parents. The same strategy worked with the PS2 and DVD, even though the PS2's DVD playback sucked. HD-DVD was the biggest reason they didn't have exactly the same success. For the first year of their coexistence, the competition was strong and a lot of customers were scared they'd back the wrong one, so they waited until the market stabilized to pick one or the other, then the subprime mortgage bubble popped and no one had the disposable income to spend on either.
Blu ray never took off as a format. Few people bought PS3s to play blu rays. HD DVD had nothing to do with it because literally nobody was interested in that format.
Your image shows that Blu-ray still has about half the total physical media market even in a post-physical media economy. DVD's persistence is a result of the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Most computers, laptops and low cost media players couldn't actually display at 720p, let alone 1080p so they weren't pressured into adopting either standard, which means that DVD stayed the medium that was compatible with everything. It's a worldwide version of the situation in southeast Asia where Video CD stayed relevant because DVD took forever to get enough market share to totally subsume the market. Everyone already had CD-V players and the screens they were attached to couldn't take advantage of the difference so the market never moved on.
If Blu-ray had been the clear winner from the start, every computer would have eventually come with a Blu-ray drive, even if the monitor was shit.
>still
You say that like it was ever bigger. > DVD's persistence is a result of the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD
It's a result of consumer disinterest. HD DVD hasn't been a on the market in over 15 years.
If it wasn't for WB, Paramount and Disney backing HD-DVD and the rest of the major studios backing Blu-ray, and they agreed on one or the other, whichever format they chose would have eventually replaced DVD as the default medium. Consumers were only disinterested because the knowledge they could back the wrong horse made them justify sticking with DVD and those justifications were never challenged again. The Xbox 360 and Physical PC games suffered because they didn't get to take advantage of the new formats' higher density. The biggest reason MGS4 is stuck on PS3 forever is the fact that Xbox would have had to put the game on three or more discs and make significant texture quality cuts to fit. If HD-DVD was just an unbacked gesture at competition like SVCD or Betamax were, the market would have turned out differently.
3 months ago
Anonymous
the issue is also that people don't really buy physical media for movies anymore, and plenty of people don't even realize that their/their kid's PS4/PS5/Xbone/XsX can even play Bluray movies, so they default to DVD.
Many people are also fine with DVD quality, in part because early on Bluray/HDDVD got pushed as being a cinephile format rather than just the replacement for DVD. I'd be willing to bet that many consumers still using DVD would also be fine with VHS still, if DVD didn't also have the various convenience features over it. They just want to watch the movie, they don't give a shit about if they can see the sweat coming out of The Rock's pores.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I was talking primarily about the justifications for the PS3 being so expensive, and Blu-ray, marketed as the successor to DVD was a primary justification for the price point. It was probably the PS3 itself after its first price cut, that tipped the market unquestionably in favor of Blu-ray. It wasn't a coincidence that HD-DVD folded about six months after the PS3's price went down.
The same advantages you're claiming DVD got its market share over VHS for were also present in Video CD, but Video CD never got anywhere outside of southeast Asia. The improved picture quality mattered more than you think it did.
Blu-ray just never became a storage format for anything but movies and video games. DVD remained the universally compatible medium. To some degree it still is today for as little as it really matters now. It was basically unheard of for a desktop or laptop to come with a Blu-ray reader, let alone a burner, and BD-R and RW sales have never come anywhere close to DVD±R and RW let alone CD-R and RW. Even when it would have been a huge convenience while flash media was still really cost inefficient. HD-DVD and the format war caused that.
Your image shows that Blu-ray still has about half the total physical media market even in a post-physical media economy. DVD's persistence is a result of the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Most computers, laptops and low cost media players couldn't actually display at 720p, let alone 1080p so they weren't pressured into adopting either standard, which means that DVD stayed the medium that was compatible with everything. It's a worldwide version of the situation in southeast Asia where Video CD stayed relevant because DVD took forever to get enough market share to totally subsume the market. Everyone already had CD-V players and the screens they were attached to couldn't take advantage of the difference so the market never moved on.
If Blu-ray had been the clear winner from the start, every computer would have eventually come with a Blu-ray drive, even if the monitor was shit.
The moment DVD was dying off and Blu-Ray was gaining bigger traction than just the enthusiast space, streaming services came and killed off all physical formats, HARD. Better physical format was less desirable than no physical format at all. Both DVD and Blu-ray sales are so marginally low, gen alpha and beyond will have no idea what the frick they are.
This was during the brief window where blu-ray was a thing and blu-ray players were hilariously expensive (I think it was like $100-$200 for a glorified DVD player), so the fact that the PS3 could play blu-rays was unironically a big selling point
They were moronic and wanted to make the PS3 w/o a GPU, thinking that The Cell is just that good and can handle everything.
Then they had to rush a GPU with Nvidia and accept their terms.
I was a bit salty I never got the og ps3 just the god awful cost cutting revision towards the end of the generation. The cheapest feeling PlayStation I ever had with it’s flimsy sliding door.
Honestly the middle one was the best one. PS2 backwards compatibility on the original model is cool and all but you can only use PS3 controllers, I actually bought an adapter to use PS2 controllers so I could have my fricking rumble but it only worked with PS1 and PS3 games.
Xbox shit the bed even before Xbone, first with RROD then going 100% into kinect bullshit and nogames from 2009 to 2012.
Meanwhile the PS3 slim had released with a nice price cut and by that time they had a solid line up of exclusives.
You know spiderman 3 console has it own rod but its a yellow led? The issue was a dumb standard about welding cause morons dumped electronic components to rivers
A standalone Blu-ray player was more than $1000 at the time. The first one I ever saw was in a Sam's Club in early 2007, and it was $1299. I remember, because my dad complained about it and said it would never catch on and that it was pointless anyway because 720i was already more than enough. He still says that and wishes they'd go back to interlacing for some reason.
It's bizarre to think how this price tag almost got Sony laughed out of the industry and now that kind of investment is expected and even encouraged. What fricking happened to this timeline?
I'll be laughing so hard at you snoys when the PS6 gets announced in a couple of years without any price competition from Xbox. But who am I kidding, you will happily pay $700 for a PS6 and probably thank Sony for the price increase.
next gen they're gonna go 100 bucks higher than this and snoys will unironically slurp it up and call it a bargain because of the PS5's inflated prices
Snoys are currently plugging their fingers in their ears and yelling "NOT LISTENING" after Sony announced they were closing down Funnimation, telling people who bought anime from Funnimation to get fricked and increasing the subscription price on a yearly Crunchyroll subscription by nearly 50% from $55 to $100.
That's what happens when Sony has a monopoly in a space.
>and increasing the subscription price on a yearly Crunchyroll subscription by nearly 50% from $55 to $100.
That's not what happened. The email in question was talking about the price increase in regards to the person being grandfathered in from Funimation's original service, so he already had a far lower cost for their premium subscription.
The $100 price is how much Crunchyroll's "Mega Fan" tier costs annually.
next gen they're gonna go 100 bucks higher than this and snoys will unironically slurp it up and call it a bargain because of the PS5's inflated prices
Literally nothing. Gaming has been a joke since then. PS5 and Xbox Series whatever fricking suck. Nintendo Switch is still stuck on the GameCube era. There was quite literally zero reason to buy any of the "next gen" consoles
>fully BC will all PS1/2 games with enhanced options >free online play >the last gaming console with exotic hardware >the best menu ever >fully customized XMB >functional web browser >up to 7 players locally >best exclusives that generation
Just to name a few of those exclusives: >Gran Turismo 4/5 >LBP1-3 >Demon Souls >MGS4 >Resistance1/3 >Killzone 2 >Warhawk >Motorstorm 1/2 >GoW3 >Infamous 1/2 >Puppeteer >Folklore >SOCOM: Confrontation
Sure it out priced the poorBlack persongays out of quality entertainment but it was worth it alone just for the BC.
>five hundred and ninety nine us dollars >ridge racer >giant enemy crab >when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away >my body is ready
Was this the funniest console generation ever?
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
AND YOU'RE TO BLAME
THE PS3 HAS NO GAMES
I PLAY MY PART
YOU PLAY BLU-RAYS
THE PS3
HAS NO GAEMS
WHITE MAN CAME FROM ACROSS THE SEA
HE BROUGHT NO GAMES FOR PS3
more games than its successors T H O U G H
In japan like vita
Thems were the good ol days
zomg with inflation that would be 768435543735b dolorrrs todaay
That's not how inflation works
Sure it is. In 2006, one 2024 PS3 would be worth about 14.2% of a 2006 PS3. Today, one 2006 PS3 is worth almost 10 2023 PS3s. Using a 2006 PS3, you could buy around 2,857 eggs in 2023. The 2023 PS3 could have only purchased 779 eggs in 2006. You'd only need a little over 14 2006 PS3s to buy an uncustomized Olivia 2.0 from RealDoll, and 96 2023 PS3s. That is exactly how inflation works.
This is exactly how inflation works
this both is and isn't how inflation works, and it shall only be determined when I look inside the box
Inflation is a meme unless we go back to using the gold standard.
PS6 or whatever they call the next Playstation will unironically be over $1,000 if Microsoft does actually exit the console space. I know you guys hate Microsoft but it's legitimately the worst thing that can happen if they lave.
That would be dumb. Im playing on consoles purely because its cheaper and easier. They still will have to compete with PC and at 1000$ price even normies will say frick off and go to switch or PC
Or I could continue to play on PC.Haven't bothered with consoles since 7th gen and don't see any reason to. Seems unnecessary.
Mobile slop and handhelds would be the main competitor to PS then.
Games and consoles have hovered around the same price range for the entire history of the medium.
OH MY FAUCI!
INFLATION IS A CONSPIRACY CHUD!
meh ill keep playing my PS2 still have to finish gran turismo 4
The PS3 had some games.
i miss when the CAD was equal to the USD. getting fricked with a 30% Turdeau tax for shit is so unfair
Currency depreciation during Harper's last term is why Trudeau got elected
bought
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now post the price of a bluray player from that year
but we must take risks to reap the rewards. And we're certainly not interested in gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks gimmicks
Riiidge racer! It's RIIIIIIIIDGE RAAACER!
PSP USERS
>buy thousand of them
>have super computer at home
now I can be the hacker Ganker
What the frick was sony thinking? Isn't that nearly $1,000 in today's money?
They were thinking
>These dumb frick would buy anything
They were right
Arrogance, also sony only wins if the completion fricks up.
When Nintendo gets their shit together like they did with the Wii and Switch, Sony gets BTFO.
they were thinking they had sold 120M ps2s in 5 years or 5 times more than nintendos console so they had no rival
The PS3 was the cheapest Blu-ray player you could buy when the format launched. They were counting on that making up the difference for conflicted parents. The same strategy worked with the PS2 and DVD, even though the PS2's DVD playback sucked. HD-DVD was the biggest reason they didn't have exactly the same success. For the first year of their coexistence, the competition was strong and a lot of customers were scared they'd back the wrong one, so they waited until the market stabilized to pick one or the other, then the subprime mortgage bubble popped and no one had the disposable income to spend on either.
Blu ray never took off as a format. Few people bought PS3s to play blu rays. HD DVD had nothing to do with it because literally nobody was interested in that format.
Your image shows that Blu-ray still has about half the total physical media market even in a post-physical media economy. DVD's persistence is a result of the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Most computers, laptops and low cost media players couldn't actually display at 720p, let alone 1080p so they weren't pressured into adopting either standard, which means that DVD stayed the medium that was compatible with everything. It's a worldwide version of the situation in southeast Asia where Video CD stayed relevant because DVD took forever to get enough market share to totally subsume the market. Everyone already had CD-V players and the screens they were attached to couldn't take advantage of the difference so the market never moved on.
If Blu-ray had been the clear winner from the start, every computer would have eventually come with a Blu-ray drive, even if the monitor was shit.
>still
You say that like it was ever bigger.
> DVD's persistence is a result of the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD
It's a result of consumer disinterest. HD DVD hasn't been a on the market in over 15 years.
If it wasn't for WB, Paramount and Disney backing HD-DVD and the rest of the major studios backing Blu-ray, and they agreed on one or the other, whichever format they chose would have eventually replaced DVD as the default medium. Consumers were only disinterested because the knowledge they could back the wrong horse made them justify sticking with DVD and those justifications were never challenged again. The Xbox 360 and Physical PC games suffered because they didn't get to take advantage of the new formats' higher density. The biggest reason MGS4 is stuck on PS3 forever is the fact that Xbox would have had to put the game on three or more discs and make significant texture quality cuts to fit. If HD-DVD was just an unbacked gesture at competition like SVCD or Betamax were, the market would have turned out differently.
the issue is also that people don't really buy physical media for movies anymore, and plenty of people don't even realize that their/their kid's PS4/PS5/Xbone/XsX can even play Bluray movies, so they default to DVD.
Many people are also fine with DVD quality, in part because early on Bluray/HDDVD got pushed as being a cinephile format rather than just the replacement for DVD. I'd be willing to bet that many consumers still using DVD would also be fine with VHS still, if DVD didn't also have the various convenience features over it. They just want to watch the movie, they don't give a shit about if they can see the sweat coming out of The Rock's pores.
I was talking primarily about the justifications for the PS3 being so expensive, and Blu-ray, marketed as the successor to DVD was a primary justification for the price point. It was probably the PS3 itself after its first price cut, that tipped the market unquestionably in favor of Blu-ray. It wasn't a coincidence that HD-DVD folded about six months after the PS3's price went down.
The same advantages you're claiming DVD got its market share over VHS for were also present in Video CD, but Video CD never got anywhere outside of southeast Asia. The improved picture quality mattered more than you think it did.
Blu-ray just never became a storage format for anything but movies and video games. DVD remained the universally compatible medium. To some degree it still is today for as little as it really matters now. It was basically unheard of for a desktop or laptop to come with a Blu-ray reader, let alone a burner, and BD-R and RW sales have never come anywhere close to DVD±R and RW let alone CD-R and RW. Even when it would have been a huge convenience while flash media was still really cost inefficient. HD-DVD and the format war caused that.
I dont miss vhs and the janky tape rewind
The moment DVD was dying off and Blu-Ray was gaining bigger traction than just the enthusiast space, streaming services came and killed off all physical formats, HARD. Better physical format was less desirable than no physical format at all. Both DVD and Blu-ray sales are so marginally low, gen alpha and beyond will have no idea what the frick they are.
Fiat money is a meme. A literal shitpost of the economic world.
This was during the brief window where blu-ray was a thing and blu-ray players were hilariously expensive (I think it was like $100-$200 for a glorified DVD player), so the fact that the PS3 could play blu-rays was unironically a big selling point
Too bad that interest in blu ray was too limited.
Nobody wanted blu rays and even i that i was a poor Black person torrented films with better quality
there has to be something beyond irony that describes this, i do not know what that is.
CHAD WARDEN WIPES HIS ASS WITH 600 DOLLARS BILLS
BITCH
the PS3 is shit because the original boomerang controller was changed last minute to the sixaxis
Sometimes I wish they would have kept the boomerang controller just so we could see how practical it actually was
there have been 3rd party trash in that shape throughout the ages.
they're all bad
I paid $600 to play Bloodborne.
Sony was literally being ASSRAPED by Nvidia
Jensen went in no lube, raw on sony's butthole
No wonder they lost hundreds of millions
They were moronic and wanted to make the PS3 w/o a GPU, thinking that The Cell is just that good and can handle everything.
Then they had to rush a GPU with Nvidia and accept their terms.
I was a bit salty I never got the og ps3 just the god awful cost cutting revision towards the end of the generation. The cheapest feeling PlayStation I ever had with it’s flimsy sliding door.
open top disc drives are based thoughbeit
Not when it destroys dvds like that small piece of shit
Honestly the middle one was the best one. PS2 backwards compatibility on the original model is cool and all but you can only use PS3 controllers, I actually bought an adapter to use PS2 controllers so I could have my fricking rumble but it only worked with PS1 and PS3 games.
That's literally $100 in today money
#1 DROP IN OCEAN FISH GAME
whoops
OH MY GOD
>SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL
>OUT OF CONTROL
>I'M SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL
>OUT OF CONTROL
The PS3 was a great console, still have mine, can even play pirate online games in it
how did playstation recover from this but xbox has stayed dead since the xbone reveal?
sony always wins, baby
They made some "games" and sold PS3s for dirt cheap
mark cerny was promoted
NO GAEMS
PS3 had games, PS4 had games
PS5 has zero games, Microsoft now own pretty much all the games but for some reason they're focused on going full moron.
Xbox shit the bed even before Xbone, first with RROD then going 100% into kinect bullshit and nogames from 2009 to 2012.
Meanwhile the PS3 slim had released with a nice price cut and by that time they had a solid line up of exclusives.
You know spiderman 3 console has it own rod but its a yellow led? The issue was a dumb standard about welding cause morons dumped electronic components to rivers
YLOD fail rates were around 10-15%
RROD fail rates were almost 35-40%
PC gaming picked up even more Steam.
Frick you carlos
A standalone Blu-ray player was more than $1000 at the time. The first one I ever saw was in a Sam's Club in early 2007, and it was $1299. I remember, because my dad complained about it and said it would never catch on and that it was pointless anyway because 720i was already more than enough. He still says that and wishes they'd go back to interlacing for some reason.
this shit was kino though
getting it was way more exciting than any of the consoles now
> YOOOO CANT WAIT TO PLAY THIS
> 1 hour of random tv adds and old snake talking about war worse than ron perlman
Im glad my stupid rich exfriend invited me kek
IT'S RIDGE RACER
RIIIIIIIIDGE RACER!
I love sushi.
𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌
Why does the canadian version cost more? Thats not fair...
It's bizarre to think how this price tag almost got Sony laughed out of the industry and now that kind of investment is expected and even encouraged. What fricking happened to this timeline?
riiiiiiiiiiiidge racer
It's ridge racer!!!!!
Remember that one??
MY NAME IS RICH ZAMBONI AND I CAN AFFORD ONE (1) PLAYSTATION 3 HOME CONSOLE WITH ONE (1) GAME
CAN YOU?
>triple the storage for 100 dollars more
Nowadays they'd triple the price too
How did playstation not implode like xbox after the bone reveal?
I still wonder if the boomerang was good
It was probably better than the Sixaxis and Dualshock 3 because it wasn't infant sized.
>Hello, my name is Freddy Francesco
That's cheaper than a midrange GPU
ONE MIRRION TROOBS ONE MIRRION TROOBS, WOOOW!
>itt xbots reliving the glory days one last time before their public execution next week
I'll be laughing so hard at you snoys when the PS6 gets announced in a couple of years without any price competition from Xbox. But who am I kidding, you will happily pay $700 for a PS6 and probably thank Sony for the price increase.
Kek. The image that anal pains snoys to this day
Snoys are currently plugging their fingers in their ears and yelling "NOT LISTENING" after Sony announced they were closing down Funnimation, telling people who bought anime from Funnimation to get fricked and increasing the subscription price on a yearly Crunchyroll subscription by nearly 50% from $55 to $100.
That's what happens when Sony has a monopoly in a space.
>and increasing the subscription price on a yearly Crunchyroll subscription by nearly 50% from $55 to $100.
That's not what happened. The email in question was talking about the price increase in regards to the person being grandfathered in from Funimation's original service, so he already had a far lower cost for their premium subscription.
The $100 price is how much Crunchyroll's "Mega Fan" tier costs annually.
>Slurping Sony's dick this hard to defend them jacking up the price to $100
Pathetic behaviour
>Slurping Sony's dick this hard to defend them jacking up the price to $100
I haven't touched a Sony console in a deacde.
If it wasnt my dad get pissed i would have sold the ps5
299 dollars
yeah but the Core system was very shit
you needed the Elite minimum for a decent time
next gen they're gonna go 100 bucks higher than this and snoys will unironically slurp it up and call it a bargain because of the PS5's inflated prices
Estuans interius,
No games on, PS3
SEPHIROTH
Almost immediately launching with King Kong in 2005, Gears in 2006 and then Halo 3 being the KO in 2007 basically doomed PS3.
>HURRY WE NEED A HALO KILLER
>we need to kill X
>do nothing
>X dies
If only they knew.
King Kong was fricking fantastic, right up there with GoldenEye
A movie game had the most "realistic" ui yup
Playstation 3 will retail for MASSIVE DAMAGE
Funny how they beat the 360 anyway.
Man, gen7 sure was a riot.
It's amazing with how this one misstep Sony basically reopened the entire console wars after two gens of unquestionable dominance.
the pacific-centric world map. what an odd duck.
I own one of these and honestly it was such a shit console
IT'S RIDGE RACER! RIIIDGEE RAAACERRR!
"honk honk"
Who would win?
I completely swore off consoles after that reveal.
What did i miss in all these years?
Literally nothing. Gaming has been a joke since then. PS5 and Xbox Series whatever fricking suck. Nintendo Switch is still stuck on the GameCube era. There was quite literally zero reason to buy any of the "next gen" consoles
> Pay to play mutliplayer internet games even in nintendo with crappy wifi
> Exclusives coming to pc one year later or more
> moronic netflix version of videogames like gamepass and israeliteps+
> Remakes of ps3/ps4 games
Bloodborne
Bottom text
>fully BC will all PS1/2 games with enhanced options
>free online play
>the last gaming console with exotic hardware
>the best menu ever
>fully customized XMB
>functional web browser
>up to 7 players locally
>best exclusives that generation
Just to name a few of those exclusives:
>Gran Turismo 4/5
>LBP1-3
>Demon Souls
>MGS4
>Resistance1/3
>Killzone 2
>Warhawk
>Motorstorm 1/2
>GoW3
>Infamous 1/2
>Puppeteer
>Folklore
>SOCOM: Confrontation
Sure it out priced the poorBlack persongays out of quality entertainment but it was worth it alone just for the BC.
Nope everyBlack person got a PS2 and until 2010 you dont have enough exclusives
>five hundred and ninety nine us dollars
>ridge racer
>giant enemy crab
>when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away
>my body is ready
Was this the funniest console generation ever?
I liked that one nintendo presentation with the boomer ceo's using wii nunchuks on stage as instruments, especially that one very sweaty indian guy.
Don't forget the man. The legend.