How much would you pay for the Perfect system?

[Trippy Turtle]

i have about $4 stored up... any sellers?

 

[RadiusXd]

cortical uplink ey?

how bout 3.14159265 *price continues forever* grand?

edit: assuming of course it will never be surpassed by another device.

 

[Lukeje]

The perfect system is at a reasonable price, or it can never be considered perfect.

(And don't tell me about what's cost-effective or not. It can't be perfect if people can't afford it.)

A systems price doesn't guaruntee quality. How much did the Sega CD cost? the 32x? The Atari Jaguar? The Neo Geo? Did the prices have any effect on the quality of system? If I paid five or five hundred dollars the systems would be the same, Price doesn't affect how good or bad a system is, but it can be indicitive.

Nope! Perfect means perfect. I will not mince words here, folks. If you wanna use the P-word, you'd better mean no flaws, which incidentally includes availablilty of product and ability to obtain by reasonable means. Otherwise, I am paying top dollar for a VERY GOOD system.

(Sorry, but this caught my philosophical edge.)

Just humour me here, you already broke the thread.

Eh, $300 bucks. That's cheap for a runaway economy. Understand, I love the PS3 and all, but $500 was really nuts. I think we can agree that setting the bar lower than that is reasonable for people nowadays.

Surely your argument implies that you would expect it to be free?

 

[iblis666]

The perfect system would be able to play any video game ever made including ones in the future on any control scheme and it would materialize an infinite number of gold bricks in front of me whenever I wanted them. And it would be free.

yeah seriously the perfect game system would have to do everything perfect including: be able to replicate its self and anything else through some sort of energy to mater conversion and run on the energy of the vacuum(since any other way would bankrupt a small country just turning it on), use some sort of worm hole tech to transmit data between times and probably parallel dimensions and since it can do that also act as a transportation device, be small enough to be portable or be a bit larger and have some sort of anti grav ability, and all while having a dedicated ai designed to make you happy.

all in all the price for a system like this would be some where around all the money in the world x1000000 for the first one and the rest would be free

 

[Trolldor]

How much money would you pay for the perfect videogame system? (In before, lul wut PC 4 lyfe 'tards fill the topic.)

I mean the absolute perfect gaming centered machine. All of it's resources and power all put into games, no extra shit for movies, internet all of it into downloading, playing and maximizing games, for sake of argument lets also say the games that come out for it are also all perfect games in their genres. The graphics are perfect and will never age, the controls are flawless, their are no bugs, no Red Ring of Death and no chance anyone could hack your information.

Yahtzee would both cream and shit his pants at the system/games, K? Noah Antwiler, AKA TheSpoonyOne would actually like them, they would get 10/10's from Angry Joe and his Badass seal of approval. The Nerd wouldn't be angry anymore.

How much would you pay for a Game? For the system?


Really, what is a fair price for a perfect 100% flawless, timeless videogaming device?

Nothing. It's the perfect system, ergo it's free.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

How much money would you pay for the perfect videogame system? (In before, lul wut PC 4 lyfe 'tards fill the topic.)

I mean the absolute perfect gaming centered machine. All of it's resources and power all put into games, no extra shit for movies, internet all of it into downloading, playing and maximizing games, for sake of argument lets also say the games that come out for it are also all perfect games in their genres. The graphics are perfect and will never age, the controls are flawless, their are no bugs, no Red Ring of Death and no chance anyone could hack your information.

Yahtzee would both cream and shit his pants at the system/games, K? Noah Antwiler, AKA TheSpoonyOne would actually like them, they would get 10/10's from Angry Joe and his Badass seal of approval. The Nerd wouldn't be angry anymore.

How much would you pay for a Game? For the system?


Really, what is a fair price for a perfect 100% flawless, timeless videogaming device?

Nothing. It's the perfect system, ergo it's free.

Pretty much this. If it's the Perfect System it caters to everyone of all economic backgrounds, hence it's free.

 

[Laser Priest]

I'd get it for free, because it's not perfect if it costs me things to get it.

 

[Unit420]

I'd pay an arm and a leg. Because if it's perfect, it'll cater the handicapped.

 

[Devon Dent]

If it is perfect, I think it would be something different for everyone. So the real question is, what is your perfect, and how much would you pay for it. Me, holodeck (with the full star trek functionality) that did not require a warp drive worth of power to keep powered, and for that I would pay $6000, which is every spare, nonspent cent I make in a year.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

But I already own my PC!

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

How about I just use my PC? Sorry, couldn't resist. But if this perfect system was a PC I'd pay like $10000.

 

[Sterlingdragon]

A perfect console has a perfect price, or it cannot be perfect.
The game-makers also matter.
Would it be a Nintendo console? I think my favorite games are all Nintendo, so how about this one?
If in my opinion, a perfect game console would be by Nintendo, and have Rare with the N64-era team back, as well as Gunpei Yokoi working with it, wouldn't it be impossible?

 

[Woodsey]

PC 4 lyfe.

 

[trophykiller]

How much money would you pay for the perfect videogame system? (In before, lul wut PC 4 lyfe 'tards fill the topic.)

I mean the absolute perfect gaming centered machine. All of it's resources and power all put into games, no extra shit for movies, internet all of it into downloading, playing and maximizing games, for sake of argument lets also say the games that come out for it are also all perfect games in their genres. The graphics are perfect and will never age, the controls are flawless, their are no bugs, no Red Ring of Death and no chance anyone could hack your information.

Yahtzee would both cream and shit his pants at the system/games, K? Noah Antwiler, AKA TheSpoonyOne would actually like them, they would get 10/10's from Angry Joe and his Badass seal of approval. The Nerd wouldn't be angry anymore.

How much would you pay for a Game? For the system?


Really, what is a fair price for a perfect 100% flawless, timeless videogaming device?

If it were perfect, I wouldn't have to pay for it!

 

[Indecipherable]

If it were forever able to play every game flawlessly, then probaby $10,000. No doubt over my lifetime I will spend an awful lot more than that on systems that are far, far from flawless. You could probably sell it for a billion to Sony if such a thing existed anyway as it would represent the greatest technological achievement perhaps ever made.

 

[DarthFennec]

Um ... perfect = free
So I would not pay any amount of money for a perfect system, that's ridiculous.
EDIT: Shit, ninja'd.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Without any ability to be used as a movie player, and no internet features beyond gaming? Sorry, that's not worth more than $100 to me. Now if the manufacturer sets it up so that homebrew is encouraged, I might be willing to give it a shot for up to $200. If I were going to spend more money than that on an entertainment product, it would either be a new PC or some major upgrades for my home theater system. As much as I enjoy them, videogames really aren't worth all that much to me, monetarily speaking.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Assuming that it would never be replaced, would never break and would never be obsolete then fuck it £1000 - £2000. Easily how much I have spent on gaming in my life time and everyone was flawed in some way

 

[isnosche]

same or close amount i spênd on a pc 2500 dollhairs
maybe 2300 and get a notebook for skype

 

[trooper6]

Eh, $300 bucks. That's cheap for a runaway economy. Understand, I love the PS3 and all, but $500 was really nuts. I think we can agree that setting the bar lower than that is reasonable for people nowadays.

I'm with FalloutJack. $300. well, since it is perfect in every way, I'd be willing to bump up to $400...but that's my top limit. The games themselves, they would have two prices. $50 for games that are 20+ hours. $25 for games that are shorter than that.