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It appears that Microsoft just cannot make up their mind as to whether or not to stop raping their customers.  As all of you may know, I was an early adopter of the Xbox 360, getting one at launch and feeling all proud of myself for jumping on a brand new technology.  Oh, how I was duped.  First they release the Elite 360.  A nice, black 120Gb HDD Xbox 360 with HDMI output.  Now, I find out that they are very likely going to be releasing the Core and Premium versions with… HDMI output.  That means that my 360 (which is a Premium 360) will be very much out of date.  I am soooooooo fucking angry.  You know what this means, right?  Always wait at least two years before buying a new console.

Apparently Sony and Microsoft cannot spend the time and money to make a good product from the beginning.  No, they have to fucking keep adding shit to it that cannot be added onto previous versions of their console.  I am actually happy (so far) with my PS3 because all of the system addons done to it have been through free software updates.  The newer, cheaper PS3s, I’m not sad that I don’t have because it actually uses software emulation for an operation that my PS3 has a specific chip for.  That means my PS3 is more reliable on that end.  However, Microsoft.  Oh my.  They are a decent company, but goddamn, they rape their customers.  When the Elite was released, I thought to myself, “It’s ok.  It has a 120Gb HDD.  That’d be nice, but I don’t need it.  The HDMI would be nice, but the console’s a little more expensive.”  Now that the basic 360s are probably going to be released with HDMI, I am just so angry.  What are they going to do about customers; good customers who paid them money to get their shitty HD DVD player fixed?  I will email Microsoft and see about this HDMI rumour and see about getting my 360 replaced.  Keep tuned to this post as I will post updates to it.