Went to the video game store next to my work yesterday, my hard-earned cash in hand, and went to buy the $299 X-box. They had 'em all right. I says “Got any X-box’s left?”. He says “Yeah, we got 2. You gotta buy the box plus 4 games plus 2 controllers plus the DVD controller. $650. Cash only.”
Go fuck yourself, fucknut. I wanna buy it piece by piece you money-grubber. I was ready to drop $400 or so for a game, a box, and a controller. Now I’ll just do it somewhere else. Screw you. I’m not buying any more games from you either.
Let me get this straight…you’re willing to throw down $400 on a system just so you can say that you have it first, and they raise the price and put conditions on you, and you get mad about it. Hmmm…
WAAAAAAAAAAA!!! It’s just a game, dude. That’s it. This is not a tragedy. You just have to wait a little longer, that’s all.
-Dave, who hasn’t had a video game system since the Atari 2600 and doesn’t get why someone would shell out 400 ducats for something like that.
Hate to tell ya DJ, but I’d be doing the same thing if it was me… They’re going to sell out that way.
I assume he meant he had two left, not he started out with two. So if you own a store, and you have the option of moving 100 units at $300 (+ a few extras here and there) or moving 100 units at $650, And you’re going to sell them all regardless, the choice seems easy to me.
Not really. Obviously these guys are grubbing money anywhere they can find it. When you buy something with a credit card a certain percentage of the purchase goes to the credit card company. That money comes off of the retailer’s bottom line. If they can save that cash then they will.
Still sucks though. In this day and age its rare for people to tote hundreds of dollars incash around with them and you can’t get that kind of money out of an ATM. You’d need to visit your bank first for the ‘pleasure’ of giving that merchant your money. Sounds like too much trouble to me.
I remember when I got my ColecoVision. First one on the block, baby. 16 colors, 8K of RAM, and 8 bits of hard packin’ Arcade action, aw yeah. Kids lining up to get a load of those number pads. I’se da shit, baby.
The last system I bought was a Gameboy. Not gameboy pocket, gameboy color, or gameboy advanced, it’s just the original model. I got it used, no game, at a garage sale for $4. My Atari 2600 finally broke a few years ago. Fortunately, I found an emulator that comes with Every game made for the 2600. It’s bliss.
Even with inflation the price of PS2's, Xboxes, and Gamecubes stuns me.
I am hoping that the Xbox replaces the Edsel as a term for failure. I have hated MCPsoft for a long time.
That’s certainly not specific to XBox. Anytime a new, more powerful console comes out against a one-step-down, established console this is the case. See also Dreamcast vs Playstation, circa sept99. The high-end Dreamcast games now blow the high end PS1 games out of the water.
I certainly could be wrong here, but I seem to remember my dad dropping $120-$150 for an Atari 2600 in 1977. If I am correctly remebering, the prices for new systems don’t seem that unreasonable (in comparison), when adjusted for inflation.