Happpeeee!!!

Looks like you got ripped off when it comes to prices.

Compared to America, yes.

Compared to what's been speculated, not really.

We've always said the conolse will be £425, and games £50. Controllers though, was predicted at around £40, and the HDMI cable at around £50.

To be honest if I'm spending this kind of money, what does an extra £50 matter? In fact, what does an extra £100?

I've just worked out the full price of what I'm going to buy on the 23rd:

PS3 - £425/$842
Controller - £35/$70
HDMI Cable - £18/$35

Resistance - £50/$99
Motorstorm - £50/$99
Oblivion - £50/$99

HDTV (32", 720p, Samsung) - £650/$1288

TOTAL - £1278/$2533

You guys probably think I'm mad.

You should just import.

720 wont cut it newb.


But yeah you're nuts.

720p isn't bad. With fast moving objects on the screen, 720p actually has slightly better quality than a 1080i. The interlaced image gets a little screwy compared to the parallel lines.

720p is all I can afford. Tell a lie, I can get a 1080p TV from some manufacturer I've never heard of with too many vowels in their name, and I don't want to do that. Or I could get a Pioneer TV that doesn't look anywhere near as good as the Samsung (aesthetically).

And there's no way I'm importing. If anything breaks then I can't just take it to the store to get it fixed. I'll have a £400 paperweight.

Are TVs that much more expensive there too? I can get a 42" plasma HDTV for slightly less than your 32" any day of the week.

Hell here's an 8ms 37" lcd with tuner for $900. Newegg has three 52" tvs and 1 56" tv for under your $1288.

Just make sure you get something with an extended warranty if you're worried about it breaking.

Good ones are expensive. And the Samsung I'm going for has by far the best picture out of any I've seen.

I've just had a quick look on a few sites, and the cheapest 42" HDTV I can find is £800 = $1585. It's a Goodmans, looks like the back-end of a cow, and I haven't a clue whether it's LCD or Plasma. The next best is a Samsung at £850 = $1685.

If I go for the brand that was named by Countdown then it'll cost me under £500... without an instant guarantee that it's a product by a company that make great TVs.

Import the whole thing, honestly you'd prolly save a ton.

Iunno.

$4.50 dollar manga from japan would have cost me $18.00 or so to import (according to this one site that I randomly visited)