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Is it just me or was Playstation Move priced all wrong?

I was starting to get really hyped for Playstation Move when the man at the Sony press conference showed Sorcery. I was almost ready to buy when Kevin Butler came on stage and gave his very funny speech. Then when Jack Tretton announced $49.99 I was like "Wow, Sony is awesome." I was totally ready to move, pun intended, into the motion gaming arena. Even though I had no interest in motion gaming until the conference. Then I found out the sub-controller wasn't included in that, and it was in fact another $30. My pessismism got the better of me, and I no longer have any interest in the Move.

I would think that they would have had the remote and the nunchuck both together for $50, then a bundle with the camera and the game and the nunchuck for $80. To me that sounds perfectly reasonable. Then why not make it so that every playstation that's sold from now on is bundled with the camera, the remote, the nunchuck, the Dual Shock 3, and if they really wanted to make me to be happy throw in a headset for the current price of $299.

I was a early adopter of the Playstation 3, here is Canada I paid like $600 for my 60 gig backwards compatible beast, that I still love and treat like the child I've never had. Shouldn't consumers these days get a break in gaming? Doesn't Sony want everyone to adopt to Motion Gaming? I thought the idea was to get these controls into everyones hands as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Sony has all this innovation that just has a far to high entry point for me these days. I am interesting in testing out 3d to see how it would work. I want to see their motion gaming for myself and how it feels in my hands.

I would think Sony would want to take a loss on Hardware sales to get those motion controllers in my hands. They will most likely make it back from me in software sales, if they continue to support it with new and interesting games.

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