Squilliam said:
On overpriced accessories.
PS2
Memory Card: $25 -8mb flash (Essential!) (Considering flash memory was expensive at the time, this is reasonable) "
"It only costs Sony £187,989/£56,246=£3.34 per memory card while Retailers sold it for £30 back in 2004 or so. (Essentially, Sony was charging £11.06 to retailers, thus earning over £7 per memory card)"
Theres gold in them hills, keep digging. Should I also mention that Nintendo managed to release games on 512mb cartidges (Flash)? Or the fact that its an out of the box essential that they neglected to include with the system so they could gouge you some more?
Not included with system
Typical Flash prices - $5 on Newegg GB+
PS3
DS3 $55 - The price of a game to get functionality that should have been in the box on day 1. (DS3s come with PS3s now....and how much do extra 360 controllers cost? $50? Oh wow....$5, at least online is free...nothing to rebut that, huh?)
DS3s didn't come with PS3s for most of its life. They didn't even get around to including it in the box until recently. How does that help people like me who already have 2 sixaxis controllers? Furthermore PS3 online is retarded, it really is. It was Laggy as hell and the PS-Store was so amazing that I visited once and never went back until recently and then I haven't bothered with it since. If I could pay money for it to be not so retarded I definately would. Before you make some retort about how its as good as Xbox Live, I haven't used it - EVER. Its retarded on its own without comparison.
Official HDMI cables - $70 (Every "official" HDMI cable from big companies are expensive...but....
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16879261116 ....... that bundle is only $50. And if you check Amazon, there are PLENTY of Sony HDMIs for under $30)
Admitting official accessories are expensive huh? So why compare official accessories with generic stuff you can buy at a hardware store.
Official Component cables $25 (Last time I checked, it was $16.99 at Best Buy...better than the $35 you have to pay for 360s)
Except that it comes in the box. Try again.
No HD cables included in the box. So some people are going to buy the RipOff versions. This is for a system thats meant to be an HD player as well!
HDD for the 20/40gb models $80 for a 160gb HDD *Required for anyone who intends to have a large game collection/use the download and movies features* 20/40gb are far too small. Say hello to multiple 5gb installs.
Xbox 360 HDD
60gb Arcade to Premium upgrade pack. $99 <--- Fair price considering it gives you everything in the 60gb SKU barring the HD cables.
120gb - Expensive but its about as bad as a $25 memory card not included in a box. It would have been the same price of the PS3 version had they gone down the same route. (Nope, because they only aloow proprietary HDDs)
Only allowing propritary HDDs is a bonus and a curse. I don't know many people with a precision screw driver set. Its easy to replace and that cost is dictated by the price of the Elite SKU. It took me about an hour to locate my screwdriver set and find the instructions to replace my HDD. If I wanted to get a HDD for my Arcade 360 it would take 1 minute once I had the HDD. How much is your time worth? The better comparison is the 60gb HDD but I guess noone brings that up huh?
Component cables included in the 60 gb
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