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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 2822502" data-attributes="member: 115">Maybe I'm not making my point entirely clear, or maybe I'm just being obtuse in understanding the rebuttal.A thousand dollars is a lot of money.  And if we're going to take the $500 30" CRT TV, that's $1000 for a barebones system (TV + console) to take advantage of the high-def features that are being toted as selling points for both the 360 and PS3.  That is a lot of money... more than I think the average consumer is going to spend.  Like I said before, maybe this has changed over two years, but in my experience, people did not often buy $500 dollar televisions.  Because of this, features like HD don't mean as much as they are being toted to.As to the arguement that they are playing to the HD crowd?  Of course they are!  At the prices that are being put forth, only the total enthusiasts are going to buying the stuff.  Since they know that they are both dazzled by high-end technology and going to spend large sums of money on electronics, why not price it as high as it can go?  I don't think it's a bad strategy... I just don't think that it's a winning one.  The key to controlling a market isn't the fringe groups, it's the middle ground.I'm going to go out on a limb and assume most of the people in this thread are not average consumers.  If you're not balking at a thousand dollars, either you're making quite a bit of money (not average) or electronics is a hobby/passion (not average).  If you're spouting off display ratios and know the difference between plasma and LCD and DLP, you're probably not the average consumer.  I think that's the biggest point that I'm trying to get across and failing.  We (and yes, I do mean we... I plan on spending some good money tomorrow on an iPod) are not the average consumers.  We can talk about 1080p all we want, but most people don't even know what the "p" stands for, let alone what it means.  Those are the people who won't pay six-hundred dollars for a console.  And there are a lot of them.</blockquote>

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