Playstation 2 Memory Card Costs back in 2004

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ameratsu on 10 September 2008

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Sony's always big on charging way more for peripherals than it costs to make. As anybody who's had to deal with waves of quick-failing PS1/PS2 controllers can testify. If it seriously costs anywhere near the $30 they used to charge to make one of those failure-prone DualShocks/DualShock 2s, I'd be amazed.

I never owned a ps1 but after heavy use my ps2 controllers stood up pretty well. The only exceptions I can think of are the rumble which didn't work that well and the shoulder buttons that sunk into the controller (though the shoulder button issue only happened after many intense frequency/amplitude sessions).

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reptile168 on 10 September 2008

|_emmiwinks said:

reptile168 said:

According to the following site:

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=31427

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=31429

It only costs Sony £187,989/£56,246=£3.34 per memory card while Retailers sold it for £30 back in 2004 or so. (Essentially, Sony was charging £11.06 to retailers, thus earning over £7 per memory card)

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Sky Render on 10 September 2008

You had better luck than me, then. I went through about 4 DualShocks and 5 DualShock 2s. Of them, 2 of each still work, and that's largely because I don't use them. Ironically, a third-party wireless mini-DualShock 2 I bought has stood up far better, surviving even being dismantled and reassembled without failing. Whereas my PS1 and PS2 controllers liked to break when I glanced at them wrong.

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|_emmiwinks on 10 September 2008

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You had better luck than me, then. I went through about 4 DualShocks and 5 DualShock 2s. Of them, 2 of each still work, and that's largely because I don't use them. Ironically, a third-party wireless mini-DualShock 2 I bought has stood up far better, surviving even being dismantled and reassembled without failing. Whereas my PS1 and PS2 controllers liked to break when I glanced at them wrong.

Stop throwing them into walls. :) I had 4 Dualshocks (2 PS1 and 2 PS2) and never had one break on me. Strange. But seriously, talking about cost of DS is irrelevant, look at the cost of 360 controllers or XBOX controllers, controllers just cost alot.

Plus, Nintendo is the king of over charging for the extras, amiright?? uh uh?? :P

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Sky Render on 10 September 2008

That's the thing, the worst I did with my controllers was having the audacity to use them. Frequent symptoms included the left analog getting too loose to use, a random face button dying on me, a select few of the L/R triggers no longer responding, the L3/R3 buttons getting sticky, and the left analog getting so wonky that it frequently got stuck in the "up" position and held itself there by what I can only assume was sheer force of will.

And Nintendo's mark-ups on accessories are nothing compared to Sony's, believe me. I still recall being irked that GameCube controllers and memory cards were more affordable than PS2 ones back when I kept having to replace PS2 controllers and get yet more memory cards due to games that used an eighth of their total space per save.

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