Yahoo really should stick to doing what it does best -- being a collection of completely obsolete services. It certainly can't do anything else, like provide accurate information on videogame accessories. The site recently reviewed some Christmas gifts that customers should avoid, and stated that the PS3 was "all fun and games until the battery dies."
Yahoo thinks that PS3 controllers need to be thrown away when they run out of power.
"It’s all fun and games until the battery dies," claims Yahoo writer Anne Kadet. "Unlike its competitors, which use replaceable AA batteries, the PS3’s remote control is glued shut. When the battery goes, Sony customers have to blow $55 on a new controller."
Simply amazing. However, it does make you wonder if this is one isolated case of ignorance, or if there are PS3 owners out there who also haven't realized that PS3 controllers are rechargeable and have bought a new DualShock 3 each and every time. That's quite a terrifying concept, if you ask me. Some of these people could be out on the road, driving. Driving and that stupid.
As pointed out, she could mean when the battery eventually dies, but seriously, who even does that? Who criticizes a rechargeable product on the basis that it will eventually die in the far-flung future? The way she presents it, she provides no clue to readers that the controller can be recharged at all. So really, she's either a fool or intellectually dishonest. In any case, Yahoo should stop talking about games.
[Thanks, Ferna]
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8:20 AM on 12.08.2009
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The plot thickens...
Unbelievable, I thought this was a joke or they were just messing around but seriously, yahoo, learn to videogames.
I charge my PS3-controllers with my 360 ( which keeps the USB-ports powered when the system is shut of, contrary to the PS3 :p )
I'm sure they got a book reviewer to review the Christmas gifts, they know nothing. simply, wow.
But wouldn't a good reader check the manual first?
I mean I recharge my batteries every 3 days so I should be spending a fortune.
Oh Yahoo you are so good at failing.
Oh sure, rechargables go bad. But she makes no mention that the PS3 battery is rechargeable, at all.
Utter Fail and a shameful disservice to her readers!
Either way, having to disassemble your controller to replace the battery is extremely poor design. Something I bet a fair bit of "joe average" PS3 owners might not know about or want to do.
Such a sad world we live in.
Either an idiot or a misleader. One of the two.
To highlight the need to replace the controller, and disregard that spending money on an Xbox (or Wii) rechargeable battery, or the cost of replacing batteries absolutely disregards the spirit of what she's actually supposed to be doing: informing and protecting her readers from a bum deal. There plenty of more palpable money considerations when buying a console this holiday, imo.
Did any of you read the article? Not Jim's. The original.
Well, it technically is. But still a wrong term.
what about the original article?
I notice they responded to her (if thats true) that it was an ecological solution. I refuse to believe that.