Yahoo Writer Bashes PS3 For Non-Rechargeable Controllers

Wow.

Yahoo Finance has posted “A Grinch’s Christmas Guide”, which aims to help holiday shoppers avoid bad purchases. In it, Anne Kadet finds ways to make products that are probably good look bad by complaining about repair costs and procedures.

The most jarring bit of the story is her description of the Playstation 3 and its “glued-shut” “remote control”. Kadet mentions nowhere that it is possible to recharge the controller in any capacity, and goes so far as to claim that when your controller is out of juice you need to pony up $55 for a new one.

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.

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