Quote Originally Posted by Gameguy View Post
How can any console today be priced higher than $300 new? To me that's the absolute cut off point in terms of value. You might as well buy a new computer at around $500. Back with consoles in the 90's, any decent computer would still cost a few thousand dollars new so several hundred for a console would still seem reasonable.

This is my view as a casual consumer, I'm not that into current consoles as I prefer older ones. I haven't even heard of any good games for this new system yet, any game that's not just a newer version in an existing franchise. Honestly I barely hear about this Xbox One console at all outside of forums like this. It kind of feels like Windows Vista, people just stopped caring about it shortly after it's been released.
Today's consoles are essentially cheap PCs, so I'm not following the argument. If you look at various tech websites, several did an analysis of what a comparably equipped PC to a PS4 and Xbox One would cost and frankly, they found that there wasn't much mark-up and that the consoles were only slightly less capable than the PCs they could build for around the same cost.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...a-next-gen-pc/

Once the second and third generation exclusive games on the Xbox One and PS4 start hitting stores, I think you'll see another surge in interest in the Xbox One and PS4.