Where is this fantasy land you live in kid? Just because you got a full time job at McDonalds while living at hom making 1000 a month, great! That doesn't mean everyone can scrape together the 600 needed. I make around 1500 a month, but that goes to rent, insurance, car, food, water, gas, electricity, and sooooo much more. a nice 600 dent in that, for a system that is doing nothing new or must have then a 360, I'll pass.
This sounds a lot like the kind of stuff Cucumba says when it comes to this debate. And I have the same response: If you have all of those responsibilities the idea of buying a video game system should be the last thing on your mind.
Besides you neglect other stuff,
You guys really need to stop citing that ****hole Gamespot, too. That place is so Nintendo-biased...it's the place that's reported all the inconsistent 'rumorish' news about the PS3, the hundred dollar game bull****, the incorrect system specs, all that stuff. Gamespot is on nintendo's nuts HARDCORE.
In any regard if you're living paycheck to paycheck you probably should be trying to find a better job or not be out on your own anyway. I mean, unless you spend every dollar you make on all that stuff, I'm sure that anyone--even a person with only 20 or 10 bucks extra per check--can save their money and get whatever they want, just in a longer timespan.
You must not have ever witnessed what happens when a kid cries for a Playstation and gets an Xbox instead, either. Parents don't make the decision, the kids do. There might be some carry over in that group--kids who see the Xbox display and their moms are able to change their mind, kids who ask for one or the other, etc.--but none of that matters because PLAYSTATION IS NOT FOR KIDS anyhow, and I suspect it accounts for a relatively small amount of money overall.
I'm not rich. I make my bankage, though. I can EASILY afford this, though. Most of my friends who are working **** jobs at like CVS have all recently gone on a computer buying spree, on which they've spent up to 800 bucks...so while your excuses may be valid in your case, you can't blame you not having your finances solidified on the company or its product. My boys are in the same scenario you are with rent, gas, insurance, etc...and we live in Taxachusetts to boot, costs us ****loads of money just to go to each others houses because we have to take toll roads through town, etc. but they all managed to get together plenty of money for their computers--with only a few weeks of saving, at that.
I guess what I'm getting at, without trying to sound like a jerk, is that the company isn't going to fail just because you in particular can't afford the machine.