@GONtheSKYLORD @Dantat @ThAdEa82 Shouldn't be, since standalone Blu-Ray players are relatively cheap now.

@ThAdEa82 If Sony has any brains at all, they will go BELOW the PS3 initial price as well as undercutting Microsoft's price.

@StormLineFilms That's just a placeholder date until a real date is confirmed.

@Ashbfc It became a multi-billion dollar ball-dipping tank.

@the_big_doggg ...These same articles are on IGN and other gaming sites because Microsoft, you know, announced it.

@green_scorpion

At this point, it would be in Sony's favor to just do the opposite of everything Microsoft is doing.

@Tidemoo

The used market has always existed but for some reason its only been more recently that publishers/developers have complained about its effect. Wiping out an entire side market is not the solution to the problem, considering there is absolutely no evidence that people will all of a sudden start paying full price if they were used game shoppers before. Its more likely they wont buy the game.

@EddieDominguez Do you mean that in a "glad-to-see-them-fail" kind of way? Otherwise the only "funny thing" is that Microsoft will lose many potential sales.

And another strike against Microsoft. Is Microsoft trolling us by this point, or are they seriously this gung-ho about failing?

Every hour check in?!? This is such a horrible policy plan, what is Microsoft thinking? Do they realize they are isolating the core gamers? I guess they're depending on the casual and the uninformed to support their sales.