Accessories and their prices

[Kid Game]

Also in that article from gamespot, a list of the accessorites that will be available for the XBox 360. They give you the price in US Dollars, British pounds, and austrailian dollars. In my opinion some of the prices are a bit on the expensive side. Some of it is a little reasonable.


• Faceplate ($19.99, 19.99 Euros, 14.99 GBP)
• Hard Drive (20 GB) ($99.99, 99.99 Euros, 69.99 GBP)
• Memory Unit (64 MB) ($39.99, 34.99 Euros, 22.99 GBP)
• Wireless Networking Adapter ($99.99, 79.99 Euros, 59.99 GBP)
• Wireless Controller ($49.99, 44.99 Euros, 32.99 GBP)
• Play and Charge Kit ($19.99, 19.99 Euros, 14.99 GBP)
• Rechargeable Battery Pack ($11.99, 14.99 Euros, 9.99 GBP)
• Controller ($39.99, 34.99 Euros, 24.99 GBP)
• Headset ($19.99, 19.99 Euros, 14.99 GBP)
• Universal Media Remote ($29.99, 29.99 Euros, 19.99 GBP)
• Component HD AV Cable ($39.99, 29.99 Euros, 19.99 GBP)
• S-Video AV Cable (US) ($29.99)
• SCART AV Cable (Europe) (24.99 Euros, 17.99 GBP)
• VGA HD AV Cable ($39.99, 29.99 Euros, 19.99 GBP)


Look at the price for a regular controller. $39.99??? Are you kidding? Thats ridiculous. Its gotta be a gigantic controller or something. No, its just the regular controller for the XBox360. If it was for a wireless one it may be worth it but no. $40 for a normal wired controller? A bit too much. What are regular xbox controllers now? $20 or something? $25? I know i havent seen any controllers for 40.

Oh wait speaking of ridiculous controller prices look what they want for a wireless controller. $49.99!!!! Is this a stupid joke? If I remember right I got 2 wireless PS2 controllers for $20. Yes, I got a package of 2 wireless PS2 controllers for 20. Not some third party ones either. First party and they work fine. Thats a big joke right there though. $50 for one wireless controller? Sure no wires it wont get caught or tangled with your other controllers. Hmm I have an xbox 360 and $50 dollars. Do I want to buy a wireless controller so I can play 2 player games? Or should I spend my $50 on a new game? I'll take the game.

$40 for a regular controller is ridiculous
$50 for a wireless controller is also very ridiculous

More reasons that I will wait to buy an xbox 360. Yes, I want one but the only game I really want as of now is Perfect Dark Zero. So I can wait for the price to go down. I'll probably get that deluxe one for $400 but by the time that comes the system will cost $200. Then I can buy some games. And hopefully prices of games go down. $60 AND $70 for next gen games is too much. $50 is bad enough for current games. If I can wait for the price of the system to go down, I can and will definitely wait for the price of the games to go down.

Oh, thats also one reason I buy lots of preowned games. Cheaper and more easily affordable. Theres lots of new games I want that are still $50. Preowned they are $45. In a few months they'll probably be $30 then $20 and less and then I'll get them.

[DaBomb]

So the controller isn't wireless? Wow.

Pretty much, if I was buying a 360, I wouldn't spend more cash on those expensive add ons. Ridiculous prices.

[Kid Game]

Yes and no. There are regular wired controllers. You can also buy wireless ones, but those are more expensive. If you but the cheaper XBox 360, the one that is $299, you get a controller much like ones of today. A regular wired controller you plug into the system. If you buy the XBox 360 that comes with the bonus stuff at $399, you get a wireless controller. If you buy the cheaper 360, you can buy wireless controllers. They will just set you back 50 bucks.

[DaBomb]

Sorry. I meant the standard one. I thought wireless would be a natural step from this next generation.

[lifebaka]

Well, GC wireless controllers are $30, but that's still less than the wired controller for the 360. Well, Microsoft is going to be selling the 360 system at a huge loss, after all.
As for some of the other things, what's the point of the 64 MB card? It's $40, and the 20 GB hard drive is just $100. With the hard drive, you get 300 times more memory space. That's insane.
Now, for the rechargable batter, I'm assuming it's for the wireless controller, correct? If so, it's at least a good deal. You can buy 4 rechargable AA batteries for $8. And I'm guessing that that's how many this controller is going to take. As for the $4 price difference, the 360 rechargable battery will probably not burn out anywhere near as fast as the AAs would.
And what's with all the different types of AV cables? How am I supposed to tell which one's better? I'm not an electrical engineer!
Now, in order to better understand something, I have a question to ask. What is the battery life on the wireless controller going to be like?

[Kid Game]

I wish I knew. If I did know I'd post it here in a heartbeat but havent found that out yet. It should be long. Days...weeks....months. I would assume they aren't going to die every few hours.