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greenmedic88 on 24 March 2010
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Reasonable said:
Squilliam said:
Reasonable said:
still too expensive for me - in principle, if you see what I mean. Compared to general cost of HDD today that's too much still.

Which principle is that? I thought that everyone was gangster with the idea that console prices are cheap, console accessories are relatively expensive. The value here is more than the sum of its parts. As a business consultant how much is your time worth if you compare migrating a 40GB PS3 to a new HDD (generally after its full) to using the bundled transfer cable to upgade a 20/60GB Xbox 360?

The principle that I don't accept consoles or other electronic devices should have more expensive proprietary devices.

Man, you should have seen me when I bought DS and discovered you couldn't use GBA accessories you already had with it!

I just hate this whole business model.

The time doesn't matter - with PS3 you just dump it to an external HDD then back again.  Besides, who actually sits watching while this stuff is going on?

To conclude, I want to see fairly consistent prices for something like and HDD not a specialized one that costs more.

But to show I'm fair in this, I'll point out that nothing made my blood boil more than the cost of 8MB or whatever they were memory cards for the PS2.  My foray into consoles almost ended right there!

 

But peripheral pricing has always been a part of the console business model.

Generally, until costs can be brought down on hardware and they aren't sold at a loss, the peripheral market is the sweetest plum for console manufacturers (take Nintendo and the $40 remote + $20 nunchuck + $20 motion plus per player = good business model).

MS basically painted themselves into a corner with their peripheral drives in that they HAVE to charge X amount for these drives or else it makes more sense for consumers to buy a base $199 Arcade (which is less profitable) and then add on a drive. If the cost to build your own bundle is ever less than the price of the MS bundles, they lose money.