I know because all systems should cost 600 dollars and take two years to be marked down to something reasonable.

because paying 200$ for a system that requires a shit load of microsoft proprietary components to provide anything remotely close to the same performance as the 600$ one with a 54.2% failure rate and a 50$ a year online fee is something reasonable.

Lets stop being kids okay?

I LOL'd.

i agree on all points!

i agree on the 360's wireless router thats way to expensive.

Oh I definitely agree with microtransactions. Definitely a complete rip-off and furthers developer laziness... except this time we pay them to be lazy haha.

All good points except the Xlive points thing. Deceiving maybe, but not sure if it's a ripoff. The points still work out to a certain amount of dollar value which is the same it works on Wii and PS3. It would have to be the prices are a ripoff for that to work. Of course some are quite the ripoff but I think that's universal haha.

totally agree on the 130 ps3 hook up and the M$ "points" system

Of course the horrible trade in values! Because these people all standing in the air conditioned shop with the pretty lights for free, they don't need any margin or profit on the games they buy and sell!

i wonder if the person who wrote that article prints their own money?

ok, rant over

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Wow. An article about the video game industry that I can pretty much wholeheartedly agree with. That's rare these days.

Then again, this is from Yahoo, and not some niche video game site.

I'm gonna find them for you guys, for 500

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