Best Buy and it’s Geek Squad are milking the tech illiterate shoppers out of $130 just to hook up a Playstation 3.
Geeks Squad’s awesome PS3 service includes:
September 25, 2009 at 7:08 pm | Business & Law, Playstation | 6 Comments
It seems Sony’s recent incarnation of the PS3 is a big hit in America. Combined with the $100 price drop and 120GB hard drive upgrade, the PS3 slim is a bargain compared to previous PS3 versions.
September 4, 2009 at 6:00 pm | Business & Law, Hardware, Playstation | 1 Comment
EA’s chief creative officer, Rich Hilleman, is predicting that Sony and Microsoft will most like concentrate on updated to their current video consoles before re-engineering their current technologies.
“I expected we’ll see a PlayStation 3.5 before we see a PlayStation 4 and an Xbox 560 before we see an Xbox 720,” he said.
August 29, 2009 at 11:21 am | Business & Law, Hardware, Playstation, Xbox | 3 Comments
As part of a promotional attempt for Godfather II, Electronic Arts shipped brass knuckles to a number of game writers. A spokesperson for EA told Kotaku that EA wanted to make sure all the brass knuckles are returned because possession, and even shipping, can lead to a class 1 misdemeanor in some states.
April 11, 2009 at 2:45 pm | Business & Law | No Comments
2old2play.com has come to find a possible price drop on the Playstation 3 coming this March. One of the 2old2play community members learned of the price drop during a visit to an EB Games store. According to an EB Games employee, the store is preparing for a $99 price drop on March 22nd, and that Sony plans on informing the press the day before.
The price drop is on the 80GB version, bringing the price down to $299. This rumor of a price drop comes about after third party publishers urge Sony to drop the price on the console to be more inline with the Wii and Xbox 360.
March 18, 2009 at 2:07 pm | Business & Law, Hardware, Playstation | No Comments
California Congressman, Joe Baca (D), recently introduced a bill that sets forth the use of warning labels on video games, much like a surgeon’s general warning that appears on cigarette packages.
The label would read, “WARNING: Excessive exposure to violent video games and other violent media has been linked to aggressive behavior,” and would appear on games rated T (13 or older) by the ESRB.
January 12, 2009 at 11:53 am | Business & Law | No Comments
When a fellow gamer was afflicted with the dreaded “red ring of death” with his xbox 360, he was expecting a long awaited return from Microsoft and additional moneys being dished out. But it was then that he was given a sweet surprise from Sam’s Club.
Sam’s Club let him swap out his broken xbox 360 for a brand new one, and the retailer let him keep his old hard drive so that he wouldn’t lose any of his games. And all of this came at no charge. Not only did he not have to pay anything, he was actually given money back when the bundle was priced cheaper than when he bought it.
November 23, 2008 at 2:02 pm | Business & Law, Xbox | No Comments
It doesn’t seem like EA ever wants to listen to its customers. EA continues to bundle their PC games with the intrusive DRM known as SecuROM. The latest game including SecuROM is Spore.
As a result, two class-action lawsuits have been filed against EA claiming the DRM is installed intrusively and is virtually impossible to uninstall. One of the lawsuits is filed by Richard Eldridge, who claims, “Consumers are given no notices whatsoever that the FREE trial version of the game [Spore] includes Digital Rights Management technology.”
The second lawsuit was filed claiming months of computer problems, and eventually required a reformat of the computer to get rid of SecuROM. The key points to the lawsuits are the fact that the consumer is unaware that SecuROM is installed on his computer, and there is no directions or options to install SecuROM once it is installed.
November 11, 2008 at 2:19 pm | Business & Law, Software | No Comments
It’s getting to the point where reading about Nintendo sales topping the charts each month is almost a given. Once again Nintendo sales for the Wii and DS finish first and second for this month.
According to NPD Group, more than 514,000 portable Nintendo DS systems sold in the United States, bringing the lifetime U.S. total to nearly 22 million, and more than 448,000 Wii consoles sold in the United States, bringing the lifetime U.S. total to nearly 12 million and extending its lead as the best-selling video game console of this generation.
September 11, 2008 at 8:57 pm | Business & Law, Wii | No Comments
In an effort to provide an Xbox 360 below the price of a Wii console, Microsoft Japan is dropping the prices of the Xbox 360 as much as 30 percent.
Microsoft will lower the price of the Xbox 360′s Arcade model by 8,000 yen ($73.50) to 19,800 yen, making the device the first among competing consoles to carry a price tag less than 20,000 yen.
Microsoft will also reduce the prices of the two other models by 5,000 yen to 8,000 yen.
Source: Forbes; Microsoft Japan to cut price of Xbox 360 console by 30 pct – report
September 1, 2008 at 3:11 pm | Business & Law, Xbox | No Comments