S.T.A.G.E. said:
ChichiriMuyo said:
How, exactly, does it cost $40 to burn a BR disc? You can get them for well under $4. Are we counting in electricity, Internet, and hardware costs as well, or something? If it's $40 to burn a BR is it $5 to burn a DVD?
Seriously, where are you pulling this number from? I just typed "blu ray burnable disc" into Google and one of the first things I saw was an offer for 25 BR discs for $29. Even if you were looking at the more expensive dual layer BR discs it only takes a quick look at Newegg to see that those are available for under $20. And on top of that, you'd only need 2 of them since the only games that big on the PS3 are MGS4 and FF13.
Seriously, no unnecessary attacks like that other guy, you don't seem to know much of what you're talking about stage. You're just plain dead wrong on the facts, and as such there's simply no justification for your belief. BR burning is not that expensive, hasn't been for quite some time now, and the fact that hacking console hardware can make you some serious money makes it unlikely that the costs were ever an issue to begin with. It's the security that PS3 has, plain and simple. The fact that there's an entire processor that functions as a security measure and nothing else should speak to that. |
Well around the time the PS3 was hacked it was forty with sets and depending on the size the BR took up. I checked recently and its down to like 12.99 each on Quill.com. Some places give you like 25-50 dollars now for sets, but there is still no point. If you are dumb enough to get a hacked game on PSN it will be easy for Sony to find you. It is much harder for Microsoft since really inexpensive to get things done on a DVD-9.
Source: http://www.quill.com/catalog/browse/sku.aspx?SKU=166454&Find_Number=BNR25&PageType=1&cm_mmc=NAT-_-Yahoo-_-12blankcomputermedia-_-sku
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By your logic, I'm sure I could find a PS3 being sold at $1000 from someone, somewhere, in the world.... You are just looking at the most expensive place to buy a Blu-ray disc... Even here, in a very expensive place to live(in terms of electronics), I can get a blank blu-ray disc for less than $7.
I checked on Amazon, they have constant sales of BRD. For example: Link
For example, at Amazon's price, BRDs are at less than $3/piece.
You can check other online retailers, not us US, link sells it for about AUD 9.
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