nightsurge on 09 November 2009
| Impulsivity said: Wow with the hundred dollars you save you could buy a wireless adapter to almost bring it up to being a PS3 or Wii! Unfortunately you'd also need a hard drive bigger then the joke of a HD the arcade comes with which tacks on another 150 for the 120GB hard drive making your "99 dollar 360" suddenly baloon up to 350 (which is what the PS3 costs with a 250GB hard drive plus blu ray and all the rest). Oh don't forget another 50 for online play this year which takes it to 400 bucks! Even at 99 dollars its not really a good deal until basics like wireless and online play come free as they should. It's like buying windows 7 "starter" on a netbook only to find that you can't use more then 2GBs of RAM or even change the background without ponying up over a hundred bucks for a different Windows 7. Low entry price then nickel and dimeing you into the poor house, thats the Microsoft way (there's a reason Microsoft and Microtransaction have the same base prefix) Next year I bet they rebrand their company name to Microtransactionsoft. I bet the PS3 still is number 1 worldwide even with this. The 360 is getting gamecubed lately. |
Apparently you have adopted Sony's mind scape where every consumer wants everything.... 
Microsoft offer it this way because not everyone needs everything. A large potion of console gamers still don't even go online, nor do they need any more space than is available with the onboard memory. Sure if they change their mind it is more expensive in the long term, but that's the same with everything in the commercial world if you buy only what you think you need, then find out later you need or want more.
