PS2 Launch retail price was $299.99 (USD)
with what you got, it was a very good deal IMO (too bad the design of the hardware and components were very cheap, hence the thousands of dead PS2's and DRE's)
i refuse to buy a 2nd PS2, after mine died (and I was told I had to pay a fee to have it...
If you look at this image
http://home.comcast.net/~pocketfudge/xbox360.jpg
and then these two images (one of which looks as if it's an updated version of the other)
http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/1141/1114229643.jpg (Updated version of image below)...