aken909 said:
Um, when has Microsoft ever restricted the cost of anything, Microsoft is just as guilty as EA or Activision when it comes to price gouging. I mean you still have to pay for Live which I might add has adds from major players like Mc Donalds and Toyota and Sprint ect which should be more than enough to pay for Live to be free. If you buy a controller does it come with a rechargable battery or do you have to buy that extra, how about a WiFI adapter or a hard drive both are extra and they cost WAY more than the average retail price for other 3'd party products. Most of which won't work with the Xbox by design forcing you to buy there overpriced items.
Just say no to digital distribution, as a consumer your protecting yourself every time you do. |
And hindering technological advancement? No thanks. DD isn't so black and white. As an intelligent consumer I will vote with my dollar should anything ever be inappropriately priced.
As for some of your other arguments: 360 controller is already $10-15 cheaper than a PS3 controller. That's more than enough to buy a good set of rechargable NiMH batteries that will have about 2 times the battery life of the PS3 built in LiIon battery. No one's perfect. Sure if you buy a 360 arcade you will have to pay more for that hard drive, but the purpose of the arcade is for those that don't need a hard drive. Having choices is a good thing. The ads only exist on one "blade" of the 360 dashboard and are in no way obtrusive. Until we actually know how much it costs for LIVE to be maintained we cannot make generalizations about Ad revenue paying for it all. I am more inclined to think the service of LIVE and PSN costs a lot more than any of us may think considering even Sony will be introducing a subscription service soon to try and make up costs.