(Fail) No Wii For The Kids: Hidden Costs Compel Console Return

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Ail said:
I woudn't make fun of the guy as much as is done here though.
It's true that the price of peripherals has exploded and the real cost of a console is a lot higher than the advertised cost ( not including extra games).
Seriously, back when the PS2 was king and few ppls played on the net, the only extra cost was one extra controller...

And a required memory card, which could multiply when you maxed out that 8MB limit, plus if you bought that Sony brand you paid a pretty penny.  For online you had to have the modem to hook into the back which was like another 40 dollars (unless you bought the slim, but then you couldn't play FFXI online, which required the hard drive which was 100, fyi) then you had the multitap if you wanted to play 4 players on PS2 plus those extra controllers.

Yep nothing extra there