New Shirt: PayStation 3!
When the purchase of a new consumer electronic device is justified on grounds that “It’s a cheap supercomputer” that may be a sign its a tad expensive. Given that the ‘real’ model starts at $599, games easily reach $60, and extra controllers can be $50 you’ve got a genuine money vaccum for the gamer fanboy in your life.
So where is this money going? Not to corporate overlords: even Sony is taking a bath on every sale - estimates put the pinch near $240 PER UNIT! Somebody at Sony better be getting a stocking full of red ink this Christmas! The Playstation 3 isn’t just a consumer electronics device - it’s an economic readjuster! And you thought that giant sucking sound was just promised features and energy responsibility disappearing.
Such trespasses could not go on longer without creation of a new Tee for the store. In honor of Sony’s latest blunder, we’ve released the commemorative “PayStation 3″ T-Shirt. Prices start at $15.99 - or 2.7% the price of its inspiration.
November 24th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
[…] Playstation gamers were promised 100% backwards compatibility with their PS3s (the thing is a cheap supercomputer, after all). The reality is very different. When gamers who are shelling out the $599 for a new device complain a Sony VP responds that “I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that’s an unrealistic expectation.” Oh Snap! […]
November 28th, 2006 at 10:57 am
[…] Sure you could make a mistake and blow $600 on PlayStation 3 this holiday season. However, that amount of moola isn’t even close to what was spent in some of the worse tech spending sprees of all time. Don Dodge, a member of Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team, highlights the Top Ten Worst Tech Spending Sprees of all Time - a sample: 8. Overture - Acquired by Yahoo for $1.6B in October 2003. Yahoo has spent the last year of so building “Panama” which will replace most of the Overture technology. There is some value left in Overture…but not much. […]
December 26th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
[…] Gizmodo declares that everyone hates the PS3. We ask what took so long? Given that even gas stations in rural Minnesota have gotten into the act its probably time to jump off that wagon. It’s a shame; Sony seems determined to make that ride of corporate blundering into hardware obscurity damn entertaining. […]