360 REALLY Costs $1000.00 after 5 years!!! Read WHY...

I was doing some calculating today. and I hear lots of arguments about how the 360 cost more in the long run because of the $50.00 a year live membership, but people are also forgetting another expense that is equal to xbox live.. BATTERIES.. Yes batteries, now before you think im crazy, hear me out. I play my 360 on avg about 4 hours a day maybe sometimes less. I have to buy a pack of batteries for the controller atleast once a month. a pack of good batteries are about $5.00 with tax. So if i spend $5.00 a month on batteries PLUS $5.00 a month on xbox live thats $10.00 a month im paying for the 360 in order to enjoy it fully!! The average console life span lasts 5-6 years, so after 5 years the total cost of the 360 is..  $1000.00!!   lol! I know this may seem like irrational fanboyism but come on!! ITS TRUE!! DO THE MATH!! $10.00 a month for batteries and xbox live is $120 a year!! If this console lasts 5 years thats $600.00 you have spent just on a live membership and batteries alone!! NOW throw in the $400.00 price tag and that comes to $1000.00!!! 

With the PS3 you pay a one time price of $600.00 and thats it!! No worries of buying batteries for the controller and no live membership. Grant it yes xbox live might be better but hey, With PS3 you can play online, chat with friends and browse the web and its all good  PLUS by the time "Home" is released, the PSN will own the 360 in live service and IT WILL BE FREE!!! Sure the retail price for the PS3 might be $200.00 more but come on, after 5 years you will be paying the same amount for a PS3 as you would just on batteries and the live membership alone!!

You actually had time to sit down and try and calculate this stuff? You really care that much?

You should probably be more worried about that fact then a theoretical price.

I was doing some calculating today. and I hear lots of arguments about how the 360 cost more in the long run because of the $50.00 a year live membership, but people are also forgetting another expense that is equal to xbox live.. BATTERIES.. Yes batteries, now before you think im crazy, hear me out. I play my 360 on avg about 4 hours a day maybe sometimes less. I have to buy a pack of batteries for the controller atleast once a month. a pack of good batteries are about $5.00 with tax. So if i spend $5.00 a month on batteries PLUS $5.00 a month on xbox live thats $10.00 a month im paying for the 360 in order to enjoy it fully!! The average console life span lasts 5-6 years, so after 5 years the total cost of the 360 is.. $1000.00!! lol! I know this may seem like irrational fanboyism but come on!! ITS TRUE!! DO THE MATH!! $10.00 a month for batteries and xbox live is $120 a year!! If this console lasts 5 years thats $600.00 you have spent just on a live membership and batteries alone!! NOW throw in the $400.00 price tag and that comes to $1000.00!!!

With the PS3 you pay a one time price of $600.00 and thats it!! No worries of buying batteries for the controller and no live membership. Grant it yes xbox live might be better but hey, With PS3 you can play online, chat with friends and browse the web and its all good PLUS by the time "Home" is released, the PSN will own the 360 in live service and IT WILL BE FREE!!! Sure the retail price for the PS3 might be $200.00 more but come on, after 5 years you will be paying the same amount for a PS3 as you would just on batteries and the live membership alone!!

BigBoss5777

Batteries? RechargerPack

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Wrong. Xbox 360 costs over $100,000....

Food to eat while playing Xbox Live, plus electricity, plus cable modem, plus all the games, plus a house, plus a car...

First of all BigBoss you are the biggest PS3 fanboy on here.  You don't play 360 4 hours a day, you don't even have one.

Secondly,  If you want to do calculations like that you have to take into account the time value of money.  Haven't you ever taken a finance class before.  So if you take into account a 5% inflation rate that 600 dollars is really only worth $519.54 in present dollars. 

Lastly, If you really want to do stupid threads like this then include the cost of electricity to play a system for that time period.  Include the cost of gas to go to the store to buy those batteries, etc...

This thread has to be the biggest failure i've seen on here in a while.

Or

the ps3 cost $1902380, here's why
HDTV
PS3
snack
batteries
alarm
couch
electricity
after__years

I used the same logic......

I was doing some calculating today. and I hear lots of arguments about how the 360 cost more in the long run because of the $50.00 a year live membership, but people are also forgetting another expense that is equal to xbox live.. BATTERIES.. Yes batteries, now before you think im crazy, hear me out. I play my 360 on avg about 4 hours a day maybe sometimes less. I have to buy a pack of batteries for the controller atleast once a month. a pack of good batteries are about $5.00 with tax. So if i spend $5.00 a month on batteries PLUS $5.00 a month on xbox live thats $10.00 a month im paying for the 360 in order to enjoy it fully!! The average console life span lasts 5-6 years, so after 5 years the total cost of the 360 is..  $1000.00!!   lol! I know this may seem like irrational fanboyism but come on!! ITS TRUE!! DO THE MATH!! $10.00 a month for batteries and xbox live is $120 a year!! If this console lasts 5 years thats $600.00 you have spent just on a live membership and batteries alone!! NOW throw in the $400.00 price tag and that comes to $1000.00!!! 

With the PS3 you pay a one time price of $600.00 and thats it!! No worries of buying batteries for the controller and no live membership. Grant it yes xbox live might be better but hey, With PS3 you can play online, chat with friends and browse the web and its all good  PLUS by the time "Home" is released, the PSN will own the 360 in live service and IT WILL BE FREE!!! Sure the retail price for the PS3 might be $200.00 more but come on, after 5 years you will be paying the same amount for a PS3 as you would just on batteries and the live membership alone!!

BigBoss5777

Also ps3's home will have alot of microtransactions. They already said that so lets talk about price in another 3 years once we see just how much we have to spend to really get everything out of home. Free isn't free when you actually look into it.

I was doing some calculating today. and I hear lots of arguments about how the 360 cost more in the long run because of the $50.00 a year live membership, but people are also forgetting another expense that is equal to xbox live.. BATTERIES.. Yes batteries, now before you think im crazy, hear me out. I play my 360 on avg about 4 hours a day maybe sometimes less. I have to buy a pack of batteries for the controller atleast once a month. a pack of good batteries are about $5.00 with tax. So if i spend $5.00 a month on batteries PLUS $5.00 a month on xbox live thats $10.00 a month im paying for the 360 in order to enjoy it fully!! The average console life span lasts 5-6 years, so after 5 years the total cost of the 360 is..  $1000.00!!   lol! I know this may seem like irrational fanboyism but come on!! ITS TRUE!! DO THE MATH!! $10.00 a month for batteries and xbox live is $120 a year!! If this console lasts 5 years thats $600.00 you have spent just on a live membership and batteries alone!! NOW throw in the $400.00 price tag and that comes to $1000.00!!! 

With the PS3 you pay a one time price of $600.00 and thats it!! No worries of buying batteries for the controller and no live membership. Grant it yes xbox live might be better but hey, With PS3 you can play online, chat with friends and browse the web and its all good  PLUS by the time "Home" is released, the PSN will own the 360 in live service and IT WILL BE FREE!!! Sure the retail price for the PS3 might be $200.00 more but come on, after 5 years you will be paying the same amount for a PS3 as you would just on batteries and the live membership alone!!

BigBoss5777

 And XBL is $50 a month, not $120.

You actually had time to sit down and try and calculate this stuff? You really care that much?

You should probably be more worried about that fact then a theoretical price.

Puckhog04

Yay for an old failed argument!

Edit: Wait a second... I thought the 360 wireless gamepad came with a rechargeable battery pack?foxhound_fox

No, i think you have to buy it.web966

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Yay for an old failed argument!

Edit: Wait a second... I thought the 360 wireless gamepad came with a rechargeable battery pack?web966

The PS3 uses 100 more watts over the 360. I guess in 5 years letting the PS3 run non stop.... OMG the PS3 costs 100 Million dollars!

BTW I can buy a pack of 4 AA name brand batteries at the Dollar Tree for a $1.  For $5 you could buy rechargeable AA batteries maybe you just need to shop somewhere else.

I was doing some calculating today. and I hear lots of arguments about how the 360 cost more in the long run because of the $50.00 a year live membership, but people are also forgetting another expense that is equal to xbox live.. BATTERIES.. Yes batteries, now before you think im crazy, hear me out. I play my 360 on avg about 4 hours a day maybe sometimes less. I have to buy a pack of batteries for the controller atleast once a month. a pack of good batteries are about $5.00 with tax. So if i spend $5.00 a month on batteries PLUS $5.00 a month on xbox live thats $10.00 a month im paying for the 360 in order to enjoy it fully!! The average console life span lasts 5-6 years, so after 5 years the total cost of the 360 is..  $1000.00!!   lol! I know this may seem like irrational fanboyism but come on!! ITS TRUE!! DO THE MATH!! $10.00 a month for batteries and xbox live is $120 a year!! If this console lasts 5 years thats $600.00 you have spent just on a live membership and batteries alone!! NOW throw in the $400.00 price tag and that comes to $1000.00!!! 

With the PS3 you pay a one time price of $600.00 and thats it!! No worries of buying batteries for the controller and no live membership. Grant it yes xbox live might be better but hey, With PS3 you can play online, chat with friends and browse the web and its all good  PLUS by the time "Home" is released, the PSN will own the 360 in live service and IT WILL BE FREE!!! Sure the retail price for the PS3 might be $200.00 more but come on, after 5 years you will be paying the same amount for a PS3 as you would just on batteries and the live membership alone!!

BigBoss5777

are you i***t or what ?? there are some batteries called...Rechargable batteries, you can charge them every time they run out of energy...

so you dont have to buy battery packs once per month...and yeah XBL costs 50 per year, but it is way better than PSN... 

The cows are really digging low now. You guys really need to give it up.-Super-Fly-

I was doing some calculating today. and I hear lots of arguments about how the 360 cost more in the long run because of the $50.00 a year live membership, but people are also forgetting another expense that is equal to xbox live.. BATTERIES.. Yes batteries, now before you think im crazy, hear me out. I play my 360 on avg about 4 hours a day maybe sometimes less. I have to buy a pack of batteries for the controller atleast once a month. a pack of good batteries are about $5.00 with tax. So if i spend $5.00 a month on batteries PLUS $5.00 a month on xbox live thats $10.00 a month im paying for the 360 in order to enjoy it fully!! The average console life span lasts 5-6 years, so after 5 years the total cost of the 360 is.. $1000.00!! lol! I know this may seem like irrational fanboyism but come on!! ITS TRUE!! DO THE MATH!! $10.00 a month for batteries and xbox live is $120 a year!! If this console lasts 5 years thats $600.00 you have spent just on a live membership and batteries alone!! NOW throw in the $400.00 price tag and that comes to $1000.00!!!

With the PS3 you pay a one time price of $600.00 and thats it!! No worries of buying batteries for the controller and no live membership. Grant it yes xbox live might be better but hey, With PS3 you can play online, chat with friends and browse the web and its all good PLUS by the time "Home" is released, the PSN will own the 360 in live service and IT WILL BE FREE!!! Sure the retail price for the PS3 might be $200.00 more but come on, after 5 years you will be paying the same amount for a PS3 as you would just on batteries and the live membership alone!!

BigBoss5777

Wrong. Xbox 360 costs over $100,000....

Food to eat while playing Xbox Live, plus electricity, plus cable modem, plus all the games, plus a house, plus a car...

AHUGECAT

I was doing some calculating today. and I hear lots of arguments about how the 360 cost more in the long run because of the $50.00 a year live membership, but people are also forgetting another expense that is equal to xbox live.. BATTERIES.. Yes batteries, now before you think im crazy, hear me out. I play my 360 on avg about 4 hours a day maybe sometimes less. I have to buy a pack of batteries for the controller atleast once a month. a pack of good batteries are about $5.00 with tax. So if i spend $5.00 a month on batteries PLUS $5.00 a month on xbox live thats $10.00 a month im paying for the 360 in order to enjoy it fully!! The average console life span lasts 5-6 years, so after 5 years the total cost of the 360 is.. $1000.00!! lol! I know this may seem like irrational fanboyism but come on!! ITS TRUE!! DO THE MATH!! $10.00 a month for batteries and xbox live is $120 a year!! If this console lasts 5 years thats $600.00 you have spent just on a live membership and batteries alone!! NOW throw in the $400.00 price tag and that comes to $1000.00!!!

With the PS3 you pay a one time price of $600.00 and thats it!! No worries of buying batteries for the controller and no live membership. Grant it yes xbox live might be better but hey, With PS3 you can play online, chat with friends and browse the web and its all good PLUS by the time "Home" is released, the PSN will own the 360 in live service and IT WILL BE FREE!!! Sure the retail price for the PS3 might be $200.00 more but come on, after 5 years you will be paying the same amount for a PS3 as you would just on batteries and the live membership alone!!

BigBoss5777

 Or I can use my quick charge kit which recharges my controller battery.

[QUOTE="BigBoss5777"]

I was doing some calculating today. and I hear lots of arguments about how the 360 cost more in the long run because of the $50.00 a year live membership, but people are also forgetting another expense that is equal to xbox live.. BATTERIES.. Yes batteries, now before you think im crazy, hear me out. I play my 360 on avg about 4 hours a day maybe sometimes less. I have to buy a pack of batteries for the controller atleast once a month. a pack of good batteries are about $5.00 with tax. So if i spend $5.00 a month on batteries PLUS $5.00 a month on xbox live thats $10.00 a month im paying for the 360 in order to enjoy it fully!! The average console life span lasts 5-6 years, so after 5 years the total cost of the 360 is.. $1000.00!! lol! I know this may seem like irrational fanboyism but come on!! ITS TRUE!! DO THE MATH!! $10.00 a month for batteries and xbox live is $120 a year!! If this console lasts 5 years thats $600.00 you have spent just on a live membership and batteries alone!! NOW throw in the $400.00 price tag and that comes to $1000.00!!!

With the PS3 you pay a one time price of $600.00 and thats it!! No worries of buying batteries for the controller and no live membership. Grant it yes xbox live might be better but hey, With PS3 you can play online, chat with friends and browse the web and its all good PLUS by the time "Home" is released, the PSN will own the 360 in live service and IT WILL BE FREE!!! Sure the retail price for the PS3 might be $200.00 more but come on, after 5 years you will be paying the same amount for a PS3 as you would just on batteries and the live membership alone!!

Zenkuso

Batteries? RechargerPack

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 BATTERIES.. Yes batteries, now before you think im crazy, hear me out. I play my 360 on avg about 4 hours a day maybe sometimes less. I have to buy a pack of batteries for the controller atleast once a month.

BigBoss5777

Do you know what is that??

Or you could use common sense and buy a Battery Pack and a Quick Charge kit :roll: Anyway, the 360 costs more than that, considering all the games I will getting for it.Tulak_Hord

I know, you only pay $10 a month for batteries for years if you have no brain. If you have a brain you then buy a charge kit and batter or rechargable AA battery kit even. What a joke.

And you know what the360 probably costs like $2000 or more when you add up all the amazing games now and coming out soon. So I guess it is more expensive you're right TC