gofreak said:What was that someone...can't remember...Ken something (?) said about Microsoft going after PS2 with 360?
TouchMyBox said:That's a poor analogy, hard drives are a device which allows you to give microsoft more money. So it would actually be in their best interest to get everybody large capacity hard drives at low costs. This is what makes the whole situation very strange and confusing.
ymmv said:According to MS those Chinese 120GB drives on Ebay are fake, illegal, unlicensed products. Every cloned drive from Ebay takes away a sale from MS so I'm actually surprised they never tried to stop this. Until now it seems. MS takes making money *very serious*.
Persona7 said:This is why everyone hates Microsoft.
Mr.Potato Head said:WRONG! Not everyone hates microsoft, so speak for yourself buddy..i personally happen to appreciate that there is a microsoft company because they have done ALOT for world in more ways then you obviously know about.
SealSqueal said:That doesn't give them an excuse to behave unethically, which they have shown to have no qualms in doing, in all areas of their business.
SealSqueal said:That doesn't give them an excuse to behave unethically, which they have shown to have no qualms in doing, in all areas of their business.
GavinGT said:That quote only gets dumber as time passes. At the time, he assumed PS3 sales would dwarf 360 sales from day 1.
Keavy_Rain said:While I feel bad for those who will be affected by this, I feel like this is a necessary move on Microsoft's part. Bitch and moan all you want about the price, those hard drives and memory units help Microsoft make money.
ymmv said:According to MS those Chinese 120GB drives on Ebay are fake, illegal, unlicensed products. Every cloned drive from Ebay takes away a sale from MS so I'm actually surprised they never tried to stop this. Until now it seems. MS takes making money *very serious*.
Yeah, my 360 is currently RROD'd, so this doesn't affect me in the slightest.Moussi said:Eh doesn't affect me..
Keavy_Rain said:While I feel bad for those who will be affected by this, I feel like this is a necessary move on Microsoft's part. Bitch and moan all you want about the price, those hard drives and memory units help Microsoft make money.
linkboy said:Nyko made a PS2 memory card that was out about the time PS2 launched and was licensed by Sony (and was a pretty solid card too).
Keavy_Rain said:While I feel bad for those who will be affected by this, I feel like this is a necessary move on Microsoft's part. Bitch and moan all you want about the price, those hard drives and memory units help Microsoft make money.
Alex said:Wait , people are actually comparing Gamecube/Playstation memory card pricing from prior generations here?
...:lol It's really great some times just how far fans will go for their own delusions. It's even funnier when the actual pricing isn't the topic at hand, but the ability to use outside drives from other sources.
Maybe the defensive folks can try to find something to dig up some relic about PSX and N64 concerning third party options to try and spin it again.
I keep re-reading this post, and I want to say that he was trying to express a different idea than how it ended up...because otherwise it doesn't make any sense.Keavy_Rain said:While I feel bad for those who will be affected by this, I feel like this is a necessary move on Microsoft's part. Bitch and moan all you want about the price, those hard drives and memory units help Microsoft make money.
Keavy_Rain said:While I feel bad for those who will be affected by this, I feel like this is a necessary move on Microsoft's part. Bitch and moan all you want about the price, those hard drives and memory units help Microsoft make money.
Mr.Potato Head said:WRONG! Not everyone hates microsoft, so speak for yourself buddy..i personally happen to appreciate that there is a microsoft company because they have done ALOT for world in more ways then you obviously know about.
Keavy_Rain said:While I feel bad for those who will be affected by this, I feel like this is a necessary move on Microsoft's part. Bitch and moan all you want about the price, those hard drives and memory units help Microsoft make money.
kobashi100 said:so let me get this right. All them 120GB HDD's being sold on ebay for $40 are chinese clones right? They look just like the official product and I wanna buy one..
AnEternalEnigma said:Not all of them. Just don't buy them from Asia. I just bought a 120GB HDD off eBay for $48 from a seller in Grapevine, Texas and it was legit. The guy that owned it last didn't even clear his crap off the drive. Backward compatibility worked perfectly on it.
chandoog said:Is BC some kind of litmus test which doesn't work on those chinese one's ? because it works for me. Great.
Come on now. Really?panda21 said:shitting up the world with crappy software? i am really grateful.
Well noone knows. Every non original hdd even BEVS uses the same hddss.bin (where SN is stored). So technically there's no reason why MS couldn't ban those drives.Teetris said:So, the update is only for the cloned HDDs, not the BEVS one?
AnEternalEnigma said:Back in the DIY thread we had a few weeks back, a bunch of people said that the drives that are cloned by the Asians don't have the backward compatibility working on it.
kobashi100 said:so let me get this right. All them 120GB HDD's being sold on ebay for $40 are chinese clones right? They look just like the official product and I wanna buy one..
They are just stopping unsigned storage data being used, like hose datel memory cards announced the other month because they broke the storage key or whatever for memory cards.Gadfly said:This is a bad move on part of Microsoft. I am embarrassed.
Mama Robotnik said:You're right, all consoles should abolish all third-party accessories.
Keavy_Rain said:While I feel bad for those who will be affected by this, I feel like this is a necessary move on Microsoft's part. Bitch and moan all you want about the price, those hard drives and memory units help Microsoft make money.
Last time I checked most of the people were buying Wii's and an increasing number have picked up PS3's. They can't do whatever they want because people have other options.snap0212 said:They will do whatever they want to do because most of the people will accept it.
*ahem* PS3 price drop *cough*They will charge whatever they want to charge because most of the people will still buy it.
The one thing I can agree with. Except I think people have a longer memory than a few days.They will almost never keep a promise because most of the people forget about it after bitching a few days.
I can agree with this too as long it's only applied using the idea that all companies break promises."They" is not just Microsoft... "they" is every company in the industy! That's pretty much what I experienced over the last years...
ymmv said:If you see a foreign seller with a large inventory of these drives, then yes, they are most definitely cloned drives.
you want the prices of the consoles to come down then this is one way to enable that.
you'll be the first one to go crying to them for a repair when that device fucks up your console.
Ahahahahaha.Keavy_Rain said:While I feel bad for those who will be affected by this, I feel like this is a necessary move on Microsoft's part. Bitch and moan all you want about the price, those hard drives and memory units help Microsoft make money.
Everyone bitched about the PS3s high price when it launched. How many of those who said they wouldnt go out any buy it day one did it anyways? A lot of them, I think.Dali said:Last time I checked most of the people were buying Wii's and an increasing number have picked up PS3's. They can't do whatever they want because people have other options.
Microsoft is still charging way too much. Why? Because most of the people who use Wireless Internet will buy their adapter. If you want storage, you have to buy Microsofts product (I know there are ways to avoid buying that stuff, but the number of people who do that is pretty small, I think).Dali said:*ahem* PS3 price drop *cough*
Korey said:Come on now. Really?
Paracelsus said:If I buy an HDD it means I ALREADY have the console.
Why should I care if they cannot drop the price because of me not buying their accessories?
Paracelsus said:The only device which fucked up 360s was the Nyko cooler crap thing, and nothing else.