Who cares. Consoles are for kids.

When consoles are first launched the majority sell at a loss. It takes a year to 18 months for things to be on an even keel. Noticeable exception being the Wii

Nice 20 year out-of-date factoid there grandad

In the current generation of consoles; both Sony and Microsoft have sold their consoles, the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, respectively, at a loss and made up for it through game software and accessory profits.

When consoles are first launched the majority sell at a loss. It takes a year to 18 months for things to be on an even keel. Noticeable exception being the Wii

You're supposed to get a console to play new games, not old ones. Consoles are cheap cause they're sold at a loss which is covered by the licencing cost of games. Sony know what they're doing.

Backwards compatibility can be fun, but when the resolution of the screen is going to be higher, and the games weren't made with that in mind, what you need is updated conversions. If people are getting a new generation console and only playing old games on it, they're being skanks and they kill progress.

You'd be as sensible if you complained that your Blu-ray player doesn't have a VHS cassette drive

3.why does the old games have to run in super high resolution? can't they just run at their own resolution?

Notable exceptions being all of Nintendo's game devices

When consoles are first launched is when they are at their highest price , cause they haven't gone into such massive mass production yet, to keep the costs down. (The more they make, the cheaper it is. That's mass market economics.)

You're supposed to get a console to play new games, not old ones. Consoles are cheap cause they're sold at a loss which is covered by the licencing cost of games. Sony know what they're doing.

Microsoft has no reason to put out a new console soon, Pachter said. He estimates that the company makes about $115 of profit on the $300 Xbox 360, a model with a hard drive.

Hey, Don Carlos, nice to see you're so knowledgeable on the subject (some of which I already stated in the thread, i.e. blue lasers) but I don't see what your point is.

Try as I might I find it hard to believe that a PS3 costs over $800 to make in a paddy factory.

Don't people want backward compatibility simply because there's limited space under a TV, and having three consoles under it might make you look like some kind of cunt?

You're supposed to get a console to play new games, not old ones. Consoles are cheap cause they're sold at a loss which is covered by the licencing cost of games. Sony know what they're doing.

Backwards compatibility can be fun, but when the resolution of the screen is going to be higher, and the games weren't made with that in mind, what you need is updated conversions. If people are getting a new generation console and only playing old games on it, they're being skanks and they kill progress.

You'd be as sensible if you complained that your Blu-ray player doesn't have a VHS cassette drive