hardly, this is still a major ripoff. I bought a SATA2 Seagate Barracuda 1TB Hard Drive w/ 32meg cache off new egg for 140 w/ free shipping last weekend. why in gods name should I pay that same price for 10% of the capacity? This is blatant price gouging that will only stop when people stop buying the overpriced crap.
i dunno; it justs seems like more ways for them to squeeze money out of everyone. What i want to know is a. where can i get a dev kit. b. will there ever be any free content? or at least a limited trial demo to download of this stuff? c. i havent been buying vc crap at all so the memory thing hasnt hit me yet how many games have you downloaded before that becomes a problem. it's really pretty f'ing stupid. they should let you download them to any old harddrive and just encrypt it with a certificate that stays (presumably hidden) on your wii somewhere
the wii points denomation thing is absurdly stupid. just change it to what it is. 1 wii point = 1 dollar. get rid of the floating zeroes everywhere. allow purchases in 1 dollar incrmenets, and for the love of god offer a price break for buying more points... right now its 100 for $1 no matter what. why should i ever buy more than i need right now? itd be nice if to see some sort of percentage based discount. Especially since the prices are an out right ripoff right now. Why should I pay 10 bucks for a n64 game when i can go on ebay and buy the damn thing and play it on my 64 for that much? even worse for cases where I already OWN the game.
meanwhile wiiware and VC are going to suffer the same fate as the useless "get it now" crap on my verizon phone: relegation to an occasional scan. ALthough I am actually considering buying some wiiware whereas im never buying crap for my phone..
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May 12th 2008 7:38PM (Joystiq)the wii points denomation thing is absurdly stupid. just change it to what it is. 1 wii point = 1 dollar. get rid of the floating zeroes everywhere. allow purchases in 1 dollar incrmenets, and for the love of god offer a price break for buying more points... right now its 100 for $1 no matter what. why should i ever buy more than i need right now? itd be nice if to see some sort of percentage based discount. Especially since the prices are an out right ripoff right now. Why should I pay 10 bucks for a n64 game when i can go on ebay and buy the damn thing and play it on my 64 for that much? even worse for cases where I already OWN the game.
meanwhile wiiware and VC are going to suffer the same fate as the useless "get it now" crap on my verizon phone: relegation to an occasional scan. ALthough I am actually considering buying some wiiware whereas im never buying crap for my phone..