xmen first class. a new era for zune and xbox live.

[Dodece]

@Selnor

Rest assured the disparity is even greater in the United States. I can generally buy a episode of my favorite television show for about $2.50 on physical media, and after a year on the market I can expect to pick up that same episode on physical formats for $1.25. On the digital side I could get that same episode through Amazon for $2.00, or if I am frugal wait till the entire season comes out, and buy in bulk in which case each episode costs less the $1.50. Now if you would compare that to Microsoft.

Microsoft charges $3.00 for that episode. The price never drops for that product. There is no cost savings for that episode for buying it as part of a bulk purchase. In other words the price doesn't go down if I just decide to buy an entire season. Microsoft just multiplies the cost of a single episode by the number of episodes. So the result is in fact that Zune is the worst value on the market.

Microsoft is charging between fifteen to fifty percent more for content then the same content on physical media, and is charging thirty three percent more as compared to digital media. While also imposing both taxes on their goods, and requiring users to convert cash into points which always leaves a intentional imbalance. In a nutshell it is nothing less then a ripoff.

Paint if however you like Zune is a colossal cluster fuck of a service, and everybody knows that once they do the simplest math. There is nothing they can do to really impress me at this point. Their product should be cheaper, or on par with others. What they charge is just highway robbery.