Holy XBox Inflation
Just scooting about the BBC site and found a link in the article to eBay. Wandered over there and found to my amazement that some mook had just paid £1550.01 for a brand new xBox (the one with the headset and hard drive etc)…I make that a 553.6% markup. Holy crap some people just have NO sense whatsoever !?
M$ have (as has been widely reported elsewhere) rushed this product through QC and are miles behind on market supply, just in order to beat their competitors to market & for the Xmas market…Just makes me think…I’ve got the ‘old’ XBox sitting under my telly and the last time we had it on was about a month ago ! Wonder what they are changing hands for on eBay [googles...] Yup £66 ?!?!
I can’t help feeling we are getting a sh#tty deal here and that M$ are just slipping in a poorly specified PC in sexy clothes under your telly with a flaky and untested OS…I personally would MUCH rather have a quiet, powerful ‘proper’ PC under my telly on which I can store my photos, music, videos, download and watch telly through a TV decoder card, surf the interweb, read my email…oh and in addition play PC games on as well ?!?!
Now before someone mentions the price (£1000-ish) I know it’s expensive but, I have all my games I want to play on it already, don’t need to buy any new XBox platform-specific ones. I can timeshift Freeview telly with a little work on it (Murdoch stick yer Sky+ up yer erse !), and all the stuff I mentioned above…whay haven’t M$ been upfront and just said that this is waht they want your XBox to truly become..and if they have and I missed the presentation…where’s the upgrades ? Oh sorry…i’ll be shipping with the XBox 360 SP1 ?!?!? RoMFALMAO…Xbox 360…no thanks !
