Like you said, every company like to "milk" teir customers for money. Every accessories, since the time of SNES, are overpriced.
About choices, I don't consider color choices as choice, but I am sure some people do consider them as "choices". I think Sony's choice are not as bad as Microsoft's choices, since we can buy cheap, OEM or branded HD, and install them ourself, while Microsoft "force us" to buy it from them at inflated price.
However, when I buy a console, I always take them as a whole, the good and the bad things. Should I feel taken advantage of, I would just stop buying game for it, sell the console, and do my gaming on other platform. I won't do a "rant and rave" on internet forum. I always vote with my money, the easiest way to let company know whether I like their offering or not.
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Like you said, every company like to "milk" teir customers for money. Every accessories, since the time of SNES, are overpriced.
About choices, I don't consider color choices as choice, but I am sure some people do consider them as "choices". I think Sony's choice are not as bad as Microsoft's choices, since we can buy cheap, OEM or branded HD, and install them ourself, while Microsoft "force us" to buy it from them at inflated price.
However, when I buy a console, I always take them as a whole, the good and the bad things. Should I feel taken advantage of, I would just stop buying game for it, sell the console, and do my gaming on other platform. I won't do a "rant and rave" on internet forum. I always vote with my money, the easiest way to let company know whether I like their offering or not.