E3 decompress

I'm back from E3. It was fun, but I feel like I missed most of it, due to being hidden in a meeting room for most of the show. On Friday I went to dinner with Mark, Jamil, and about 15 other people. As all compared notes on the games they thought were most impressive, I hadn't seen any of them (save Gears of War, which looks da bombdiggitydoo!)

There's been lots of posts on other's blogs about the MS keynote/press event (which I attended), vs those from Sony & Nintendo (which I didn't attend but will view videos of this week). Sentiment most seemed to reflect was a ranking of Nintendo-->MS-->Sony.

Many dissed the PS3 high pricepoint, and while it is high, I wasn't sure how it compared historically (though I did hear several make 3DO references). How pleased I was, then, to come across this post on Curmudgeon Gamer, comparing absolute prices of consoles over the past 30 years, and also relative, adjusted for inflation:



It needs the Xbox360 pro version added, as well as the higher-priced sku of PS3, but still it's interesting. It would also be interesting to map installed base of each vs price. Is there a "doomed threshold" beyond which consoles don't succeed? Could it be that simple? Hmm...