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Yeesh, I think Sony is in cahoots with energy providers around the world.

that doesn't compare to the cost of Xbox live at ALL. and I have 2-3 computers running in my house at any given time with 600w power supplies, so I'm actually not that intimidated. an extra $40 bucks isn't that bad.

Curious, how much does the 360 suck? Power that is, I know the other answer, bada-dumpsh.
Nah it's a fine system folks, try the wings.

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Dispensing WOOT over arbitrary and meaningless achievement.

WoW costs about $280 dollars a year to play (assuming you have a relatively small power source in your computer), yet no one complains about that... In short, I fail to see your point.

That's because it's WoW. People tend not to complain about WoW for reasons unknown to me.

But yeah, that's quite absurd, Skweeb. $40 bucks? For 2 hours a day?

Good thing I'm not planning on buying one. Besides, $600 plus $40 per month = more than I have.

No, Fenris. Forty dollars a YEAR... which is roughly three dollars a month. Probably less as it's assuming you play for two hours every single day. I know my average on console gaming is considerably less than that. I may play for six - seven hours a day some days, but there are many many more when I don't even turn it on.

To put this in better perspective, your computer, more likely than not, has a 550 watt or higher power supply. This means that to run your computer for a year you're talking in the 70 dollar range, assuming you only have it on two hours a day. Assuming you're like most people and have your computer on all day, or even half a day... yeah, lets go with half a day...

You have your computer on for half a day, at 550 watts of power. That's 1.4 times the power 6 times as long--about 336 dollars a year, or twenty-eight dollars a month. In other words, running your computer like a normal person is costing you 8.4 times as much as running the PS3 would.

So, yeah, see the pointlessness?

Also... remember that the PS3 is "like" a computer.

...linux, internet, mouse, keyboard... yeah... a lot like a PC

The whole "PS3 is like a computer" thing is just crazy Kaz just trying to avoid paying some wierd tax bill as far as I'm aware. He did the same thing with PS2 and claimed it was a computer so he'd save lots of moolah.

$40. What's that in £ anyway, probably not much at all really?

And as for WoW, it's £10 a month; £120 a year, but the reason most people don't complain about the cost is because as I understand it around half the people who play it aren't the ones paying the money because their mostly younger people and it's the parents who are having their credit cards maxed!

As Krylo said, this is pointless talk.

On the WoW thing, if you're running your computer half a day every day, thus adding the average $280 a year to your electric bill, the fact that, at some point during that half a day that the computer is on, you're playing WoW is inconsequential to the electricity used to power the computer that you would have had on anyway. Other than that, $15 a month to play is a pittance that I, in my craptastic level of income, can still pay out of my pocket with no financial backlash. As for this'n:

You know, I feel exactly the same way about RaiRO.

Back to the matter at hand: Yeah, this is silly PS3 bashing. I mean, I rather hope the PS3 crashes and burns as much as the next guy, but even I think this complaint is ridiculous.