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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 3038012" data-attributes="member: 87">$ony is making a critical mistake with the $600 pricetag. If they stay at that price tag Microsoft will hand them their butt - but not with the Xbox 360 -- rather it will be Windows Vista.  By the time the P$3 debuts entry level Vista machines will be running at the $600 (it will take them awhile to drop because Vista is a resource greedy little gremlin of an OS).The problem with a $600 console in a $600 PC world (Hell, $500 PC world) is justification of the expense. It's far easier to justify the expense of the PC than the game machine.  Another problem is that if I'm going to commit $600 to a game machine why not $900? $1200?  PC's only start at that plateau, they as we all know go up from there.Consoles are kiddie toys.  Yeah, they have adult games on them, but they still have the stigma of 'toy' attached.  You do not make your toy more expensive than the tools on the market.Also, if the $100 / game price tag is true the PC will certainly kill the P$3.(Note, I use $ instead of S for $ony in reference to the rootkit fiasco of last year. $ony was crimilnalliy negligent in this matter, owes the world an apology for deliberately attacking computer owners with the worst of viruses -- a rootkit -- and until such time as they do apologize I cannot and I will not endorse or purchase any product they make).</blockquote>