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Dearest Console Makers:
Gameboi | 12:10 PM on 10.05.2007 12 comments


You are really starting to chafe my ass with the million variations of the same friggin console. Why must you complicate things so much? It's getting to the point that we nearly need a Ph.D. in order to decipher what version one has compared to versions two, three, and four. When you need a friggin chart, things are getting out of hand.

Boy oh boy do I miss the days you could walk into a store and come out with a purchase, knowing full well that every console made by that particular company had the same exact set of features. Now you have to either pay through the nose, or downgrade to a crippled version of what's being offered. Are we buying custom computers here? Man, do I ever feel sorry for the millions of clueless parents out there who take on the monumental task of trying to figure this out -- in order to buy something nice for their kids. They don't stand a chance.

Whoever decided that the multitude of "choices" was great for the consumer needs to get kicked in the nuts repeatedly.This whole subject gives me (and a whole lot of other people) the shits. [/end of rant]

This needs to stop.

Sponsored by: Let's make yet another version of the PS3. Xbox 360 soon to follow




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blehman's Destructoid Blog
Hear, Hear! I totally agree. It's getting to the point where a man has to buy two, three versions of the same system to get all the perks.

And that's just not cool, man.
king3vbo's Destructoid Blog
Yah whatever happened to just making 1 type of console. If you want to sell accessories or upgrades then go ahead, dont make a new console w/ them installed, its just to confusing
Rockvillian's Destructoid Blog
That is why I only have a PC and Wii (well in addition to everything older I own).

Wii is simple, but with a PC I can change the specs whenever I want without having to look at eye burning stat sheets you posted up there. Ouch.
Cowzilla3's Destructoid Blog
The Wii: keeping it simple with base techonology since 2006.
brainderailment's Destructoid Blog
That NTSC/PAL for PS3 chart is retarded, NOBODY will ever see these two consoles side by side. + The 60gb is being phased out everywhere. But I agree, make 1 console for all.
Tristero's Destructoid Blog
I predict it's only going to get worse. A lot of people want to see consoles move more and more toward the PC model of constant upgrades throughout their life cycle. I fear this is the beginning of a much longer and horrid trend.
BlindsideDork's Destructoid Blog
Yeah one for me please!
Snaileb 's Destructoid Blog
I wonder what console makes you could be refering to.. does your status @ dtoid make you impervious to fanboy posts?

jp.. I fully agree my bionic homie.
MaxVest's Destructoid Blog
Or at least go the handheld route: make the consoles with better features better-looking.

Note: clamshell console design may equal fail.
LostCrichton's Destructoid Blog
I agree with Gameboi wholeheartedly. It's getting ridiculous on a totally new level.
Velt's Destructoid Blog
I agree.
And the the HDMI thing or looking the manufacture date because you read on the internet that if the thing was manufactured post xxx-date is not going to have the cooling problems or its going to have the new 65nm chip...

is crazy.
Joseph Leray's Destructoid Blog
I totally agree. Trying to buy an 360 now would be like trying to do a vasectomy. On yourself.

I don't know where I'm going with that analogy, just know that it's really unpleasant and hard. Like a puzzle.


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