| MonstaMack said: I don't think it will cost a lot, but it will get them a profit. Hell my friend just called MS and they now want $15 to ship a transfer cable to him when he bought his recent Elite (he bought the core unit 4+ years ago and It's finally crapping out, so he's buying a elite). They also no longer ship out the free box/coffins for your RROD 360. The hard drive is over priced. You can get a 1TB for $100 or less at a retail store for the PC, yet MS is charging much more then that for a simple 120 gig HD for the 360. The wireless adaptor is $100ish for the new N one, when it should be priced at $50 or $60 at the most. I think MS is more geared towards profit now and want to eliminate their losses. I think Natal however will be priced as cheap as possible to get people to buy them and hopefully other Natal games. |
Postage and handling + the cable itself doesn't sound like a profit centre at $15 for them.
Sony didn't ship me a coffin when my PS3 broke down, thats pretty standard.
The HDD is in an external enclosure and I believe they have to pay a royalty to Nvidia for every one to enable backwards compatibility. I see similar drives for $70 from Newegg so it doesn't seem that bad considering extra margins for retailers and Microsoft are the norm for peripherals. Its not like most of us haven't paid too much for an 8MB memory card at some point, so its a normal console phenomenom.
As for the wireless adapter, its a dual band N USB adapter for $87 on Newegg. The closest single band was $43 so its not a significant additional cost IMO.
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