Yahoo’s Financial team is out to tell you what gifts not to buy this Christmas, with the PlayStation 3 on the top of the Grinch’s list.
Yahoo doesn’t think that coal is such a bad Christmas present, since it not only lasts forever, it also doesn’t need any replacement parts. These are features that the PS3 is apparently lacking.
Anne Kadet begins:
Roaming store aisles, it’s easy to come up with a list of gifts that qualify as the new lump of coal.
And Sony’s console is at the top of the list. Why? Its controller. Oh yes, wait for the reasoning…
It’s all fun and games until the battery dies. 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.
Sony says there’s an “environmental benefit” since gamers don’t have to toss their batteries on a regular basis, but Isidor Buchmann, president of battery-equipment maker Cadex Electronics, says captive batteries are becoming common because it’s cheaper for companies to eliminate the battery housing and hatch.
And so concludes Yahoo’s reasons for not buying a PS3 this holiday. Hands up if the battery for your controller has died. Anyone? The PS3 controller’s battery is said to have a life of around 5-8 years and though its chrageable life may start to waver after a few years, you’re not going to have to go out and replace it any time soon. Indeed, in 5 years you may have bought countless AA batteries – a sum that would surpass that $55 a new controller costs.
In other news, the PS3 won the best Home Cinema Gadget 2009 in the sixth annual Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadget Awards.
Oh and by the way, you can replace the battery in your PS3 controller, with a $5-10 replacement. Just use a…screwdriver. Merry Christmas Yahoo, powered by Bing (owned by Microsoft)!
Either a enormous fanboy made that article or a very, very stupid person.
That’s the most ridiculous reason ever, and they call that professional journalism.
A big FU Yahoo and that Author.
Wow what a dumb-ass.
You don’t NEED to replace the batteries; it’s rechargable.
Hold up, that wasn’t my point, lol The point was that the article is making it like the battery lasts about the same time as a regular set of batteries. This is the biggest bull article of all time.
you do know that if the battery fails after like five years sony will replace your controller for ten $10
Wow, that writer needs to be fired…Definitely writing beyond any makings of a fanboy, just sheer stupidity.
this is no surprise to me Micro$oft and yahoo are partners now so yahoo is doing them a little a favot
what ever nobody uses yahoo any way, the only reason yahoo exists is for email. but for everything else people go to google
So . . . don’t by the whole console because the battery on the controller isn’t as easily detached as the Wii or 360 controllers?
This is really dumb. I bought my PS3 on Black Friday this year, and do not regret it one bit.
*facepalm* then I LOLD at the idiot who made the list….
Email and Flikr.
……..really? lol
That is the most pathetic excuse to bash a PlayStation controller. I’ve had my PS2 controller since launch and it still works perfectly after being manhandled to shit.
STFU retard!
who wrote this? i suppose the biggest 360 fanboy ever or a ps3 hater!
that guy is an idiot
Don’t buy a PS3 over rechargeable controllers…really? I find this much nicer than dealing with batteries,if anything it’d make me want the PS3 more,lol.
LOSER!!!
Pervysage999: The guy is a girl.
What a stupid, pitiful attempt to undermine the PS3 this holiday season.
Yahoo should know better, or hire more educated journalists.