600$ for a console worth 800$ and the best bluray player at the time.
I hate when people are just talking about the price in a vacuum. Sony didn't try to rip you off, they were losing money on it and provided a powerful console ahead of its time (2006).
Now we just have a weaker PC.
You know what my response back then was to the, but it's cheap for a blueray player? I don't want a blu Ray player, I want a games console. And 600 is too much for a games console. Sometimes you gotta consider the market you are selling to. Sony was selling it as a games console. It should be priced as such. If the tech they want to put in makes it too expensive for what the market they are aiming for will pay, especially if it doesn't really help the purpose they are selling it for, maybe that tech is too expensive to put in it. That was one of the problems with the vita too. Nice piece of tech for the price but still priced too high for a handheld. They should have sacrificed something to make it cheaper (I vote the back touchpad). Of course it would have also helped if they SoA didn't forget it existed and actually marketed it