DROP THE PRICE DOWN

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Wow, really tired of the rip off accessories. Come on I just got a wireless N USB for $19.99.

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Wow, what a rip-off.

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How much?? No doubt it will still be stupidly expensive in the UK… Seriously, where do you get these prices from?? Do you have a lucky-dip raffle where you all stick an amount in a hat and just pull out the first one??

Think I’ll be sticking to CAT5 for now… Another stupidly overpriced accessory, just like the useless “Play and Charge” kits which never charge when plugged in via the cable, yet the battery packs charge fine when plugged into the standalone charger unit… (Yet you say its a faulty battery pack on a NEWLY purchased kit and say buy another…) Over priced Hard Drives which offer value for money (£ per GB) from 10 years ago.. and you give the usual rubbish about access times and latency’s blah blah (FFS its a 5400rpm drive!!) And don’t get me started on this new 250Gb drive which you are only selling WITH a Console (I’ve already filled my 120Gb drive…)

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not totally anti-xbox, I like the system, the games, the whole online experience (Rather pay for a well managed system in that respect) But the price you charge for Accessories… You really need to rethink your strategy if you want to be competitive nowadays…

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I can kinda see the reason for the price – most wireless N bridges I found are above $75. It is still a tad steep though.

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Here’s how to solve this one: Find some low-priced N routers (online or locally), then check to see if they’re supported by DD-WRT’s firmware (http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database). Set it up as a regular router or bridge it to your existing router. Cheaper and considerably more configurable and functional than Microsoft’s overpriced dongle.

So, how long before Microsoft starts disabling unlicensed bridges from the Ethernet port?

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Jeez, save your money.
Just keep your router/gateway in your entertainment center with your Xbox. Then all you need is 1′ ethernet cable for the best signal possible.
My PCs can use the wireless.
Xbox + cat6 FTW.

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The more I see how M$ Prices items such as games on demand and wireless antennas the less I buy stuff. To say $99 is high is a terrible under statement. A device like this should cost around $20…its a frigging antenna that Sony and nintendo include in their systems.

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Neither Sony or Nintendo include wireless N in their systems and there is no way to get it even if you want it. The price of this adapter is high, but it is NOT something that’s built into competing machines. Unless you want to stream full 1080p content, there’s no need real for this anyway, but at least you can buy it if you need it.

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Just a bizarre, bizarre price. We all know that MS and Sony sell consoles cheap so that they can make money on games. This is a tactic which has worked astonishingly well over the years.

So why not do the same with accessories like this? If somebody doesn’t want to spend half the price of the console again to get online, then MS can’t sell them a Live membership, can’t sell them Arcade titles, can’t sell them (hugely overpriced) Games on Demand, can’t sell them (hugely overpriced) Zune movies on demand, can’t sell them DLC, can’t show them adverts, etc., etc.

If MS had any sense whatsoever they would give the wireless adaptors away for free if somebody takes out a Gold Live subscription – they’d make their costs back incredibly quickly. And like gym subcriptions, or Magazine subscriptions, the wonderful thing from their point of view is that when people start paying monthly subscriptions, they can rarely be bothered to cancel them – it’s money for old rope.

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Just a bizarre, bizarre price. We all know that MS and Sony sell consoles cheap so that they can make money on games. This is a tactic which has worked astonishingly well over the years.

So why not do the same with accessories like this? If somebody doesn’t want to spend half the price of the console again to get online, then MS can’t sell them a Live membership, can’t sell them Arcade titles, can’t sell them (hugely overpriced) Games on Demand, can’t sell them (hugely overpriced) Zune movies on demand, can’t sell them DLC, can’t show them adverts, etc., etc.

If MS had any sense whatsoever they would give the wireless adaptors away for free if somebody takes out a Gold Live subscription – they’d make their costs back incredibly quickly. And like gym subcriptions, or Magazine subscriptions, the wonderful thing from their point of view is that when people start paying monthly subscriptions, they can rarely be bothered to cancel them – it’s money for old rope.

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Same goes for the Hard Drives by the way. If people fill up their memory cards or hard drives then they aren’t buying Games on Demand, Arcade Games, DLC, films, etc.

MS should be falling over themselves to make it as easy as possible for people to get their hands on more storage space as cheaply as possible, so that they can start filling it with stuff bought from Microsoft.

Remember that at the moment Microsoft has a monopoly of all downloadable items for the 360. As companies move away from physical media (see the PSP Go for example) then competition authorities are bound to wake up to the fact that it is an extroadinarily bad idea to let just one company set the price for all the content on their console.

MS should be making the most of this period before they are forced to let other people sell digital content for their console (which will of course start forcing prices down to a fair level).

Get as many wireless adaptors and as much storage capacity into as many people’s hands as cheaply as possible, as soon as possible!

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You should keep the original adapter and drop the price of the old one to 40 bucks.

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if the price goes down then i will think bout it.I will just stick to the wired connection.for now

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i’d love to have this but Microsoft prices this like they don’t want people to buy it or something.

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As a network engineer, I find this price laughable. There are so many other ways to do this it isn’t funny. Personally, I ran a nice CAT6 to my entertainment center, but you could do internet connection sharing with your laptop or a second ($10) nic in a desktop close by, a DD-WRT enabled router ($50). Major, I know you don’t do the pricing, but this is really getting old. It’s no wonder you have people hacking hard drives and your systems – the prices you guys are charging are ridiculous for what you get.

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mo money mo money mo money…it is the M$ way after all…always telling us users ‘more grip, less lip’ I am getting an Elite unit and need a transfer cable. Xbox support twittered me a response letting me know it was going to cost along with the balls to ask me to rate them. This, along with everything else, is the continuation of the x-ploitation of long time users. I may be new to the Live aspects but I do not know how much longer that is going to last along with even more disgruntled users. My .02 in this tight economic time.

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