{"id":726,"date":"2006-11-19T16:08:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T20:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/19\/problem-with-bundles\/"},"modified":"2006-11-19T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T20:08:58","slug":"problem-with-bundles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/19\/problem-with-bundles\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem with bundles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did the bundle thing with the PSP, the GBA, the Game Cube, and the PS2, but no more.\u00a0 After getting some sort of crap accessories with the PSP, I decided enough was enough.\u00a0 I guess the online shopping age has matured to the point where people are willing to pay a whole hell of a lot for extra crap just to make sure they get something that they may not be able to pick up locally.\u00a0 Seriously, I know some people are desperate, buy why would anyone do this EBGames.com\/Gamestop.com PS3 deal?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Friday evening [Nov 17], we will have a limited quantity of PlayStation 3 20 Gig HD bundles available for online pre-order. Each bundle will include an extra wireless controller, six games, a one-year product replacement plan, a 12 month subscription to Game Informer and a Resistance: Fall of Man guide. The price will be $994.28 plus tax and handling. We expect these bundles to ship on or before December 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last offer I saw for the Wii was sitting just short of $700 for a collection of games, and some crap accessories.\u00a0 Once again, I ask, why?<\/p>\n<p>And no, I am not writing this because I am some bitter gamer that did not get a shiny new system.\u00a0 I am just a disillusioned SOB \u2013 waiting for gaming to be fun again, without all the bundles of fun.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did the bundle thing with the PSP, the GBA, the Game Cube, and the PS2, but no more.\u00a0 After getting some sort of crap accessories with the PSP, I decided enough was enough.\u00a0 I guess the online shopping age has matured to the point where people are willing to pay a whole hell of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/19\/problem-with-bundles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Problem with bundles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}