yeah you reckon, it would not be anything to do with competition, the biggest factor in any electronic item is supply and demand,when you bought them systems as expensive as they were that was mainly because they were selling relatively small amounts of them, the price drop came due to mass production and sales not because of anything else as you are suggesting, vcr dvd tv and everything has done the same,its not cutting corners that does the price drops its mass productionand the number of companies fighting to keep the most sales,manufacturing costs have also dropped considerably on the components due to the same reasonsOriginally posted by locustfurnace@Mar 26 2005, 10:22 AM
besides older computers where made much more reliable, as they costed more - included better hardware, todays machine are dirt cheap, used OEM half equipped hardware, all-in-one controllers. All computer makers cut costs these days every way they can. Drift is more a problem today then in the past.