Yahoo!: PS3 is “all fun and games until the battery dies”
December 8, 2009 / 06:03 AM EDT / (@salromano)

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This may be the most ridiculous thing you’ll read all year. A new article from Yahoo! Finance titled “A Grinch’s Gift Guide” claims that the PlayStation 3 shouldn’t be purchased as a Christmas gift simply because the controllers do not have replaceable batteries, and that when the controller dies you’ll have to blow $55 USD on another.

Oh yeah. That’s terrible.

“It’s all fun and games until the battery dies.” Yahoo author Anne Kadet wrote. “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.”

Incredibly true, Anne. I don’t think I would’ve purchased a PS3 had I known this. Although it has been three years since I purchased my system and my controller still seems to work just fine. Plus, adding up the money I would’ve spent on AA batteries within three years time would equal to well over $55.

She continues: “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.”

Beautiful, isn’t it?

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  • MDUDE2st

    OMG Yahoo! you are so stupid! The PS3 controller doesn’t really die, it only needs to be recharged from the PS3. The gamers that use controllers with AA batteries like the dumb piece of plastic 360 controllers run out faster than the PS3 controllers! The real thing that should be on the Grinch’s Gift Guide is the Xbox 360 because of everything it lacks that makes the PS3 the better console!

  • http://blogeadorsolar.blogspot.com Palitococo

    And the winner of the dumbness words of the year its: Anne “dies battery” Kadet!!!!

  • incredibilistic

    My original PS3 controller is still going strong. Compare that to replacing AA batteries every 3 months for 3 years and you’re looking at about $96 (based on an average of $8 per pack).

    This is of course does not count other costs like the gas it takes to get to the store.

    This really is a stupid statement and I blame the interviewer for not digging into her about what it means when AA batteries die in Wii or 360 controllers.

  • http://www.youtube.com/tezchi TezChi

    It is often unbelievable the things you can read about the gaming industry if you have a look at newspapers etc, some of it is just laughable, while other times is it literally offending.

    This Yahoo story is pretty bad, and a very bad argument against anything.

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=61626337 yencid

    looks like yahoo hasnt heard the news that the doom and gloom/hate articles about the ps3 are not in style anymore :p

    • 717richboy

      yahoo reporters are idiots for 1 the controller is unscrewable not glued for 2 the replaceable rechargeable battery is less then $5 on ebay and 3 if i played my wii as much as my ps3 i would spend like 70 a year on batteries plus my ps3ps3 controllers are still working fine after 3 years and not 1 replacement battery she needs fired and slapped