The innovation, incredible design, the failures and the unbelievable price: if you remember the era before XBOX 360 was
launched, you probably remember that many internet sites offered to pre-order the console, along with several games, for astronomic prices. If I recall, the cheapest package then cost 600$, and the most expensive reached beyond a thausand.
Today, a british sales site esablished, by the name of Play.com, and offers you to buy Playstation 3 along with 3 games right away, for 549 pounds only. The word 'only' doesn’t reflect so much on the huge price which reaches 4500 Shekels, but a simple calculation concludes that if the advicable european price for the expensive version of the console is 425 pounds (about 3500 Shekels), it turns out that each of the three games – ‘Singstar’, ‘Warhawk’ and ‘Formula One 06’ will cost about 333 Shekels, a price which is not
familiar to the british, but is very familiar to the Israelies.
Indeed, the new console price in Isreal hasn’t been set, but that doesn’t mean it’s worth jumping on the ‘
bargain’ and buying abroad. Not only that you will bite your fingernails for months and wonder if you have gained anything at all from this deal, but you might not be among the first to decorate their Israeli house with this cool new toy – the site doesn’t promise you will get the console until the end of 2006. I still question wheather this will be my best purchase, or should I choose the XBOX, but I say that in Israel, Playstation penetration of the market is much stronger, as did games, patches and soforth.
So, if you care less for small mistakes in the software, and graphics which is not the best in the world, start saving money for this wonderfull bargain.