[citation][nom]OvrClkr[/nom]I guess you guys can care less what price to performance means. I have both the PS3 and the 360, this is why I posted in the first place. We are not getting our moneys worth.[/citation]
A pure price to performance analysis fails to consider that different people place value on different things, and also ignores the fact that a lot of us, if not most of us, don't need 250GB or more of storage. Your average 360 user can still probably get by just fine with 20 or 60 GB, since not all of us use our consoles to store our entire music and movie collections. If you don't need extra storage, it is irrelevant how much it costs.
[citation][nom]OvrClkr[/nom]Sony does not make you pay more for extra storage, why would you let MS do it?[/citation]
I don't know what you mean when you ask, "why would you let MS do it?". If you have a problem with it, don't buy it - that is not a difficult solution to figure out. Not buying Microsoft's products is the clearest way to send a message that people won't stand for this sort of pricing. Unfortunately, you're ignoring the fact that for the last 4-5 years, people have continued to buy these products, despite the fact that they are priced outrageously high, which allows Microsoft to keep using this same model for new hardware (in fact, it encourages them to do so). That suggests that most people aren't as bothered by the pricing scheme as you, or me, or the other patrons of places like Tom's hardware.
[citation][nom]OvrClkr[/nom]Becuause you want them to make a profit?? I guess everyone has their own opinions...[/citation]
That assumption is not justified by anything anyone in this thread has said. No one has said that they want Microsoft to make a profit, or that they like this pricing model. What some of us have said is that if making a profit is Microsoft's goal, which it almost certainly is, then this business model makes sense. I don't like this pricing scheme - I WANT more storage for less money - but I can't deny that Microsoft has found a successful business model.
Right now, whether you like it or not, Microsoft has no incentive NOT to keep using this model, because people are still buying the hardware. As long as that continues, why would they start doing things differently?
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