Sunday, September 03, 2006

World's Worst in Videogames: Circuit City Edition

Another retailer comes into the Worlds Worst lot, and this time it's Circuit City.
With 360's becoming less rare, more people are out to buy one. But this Circuit City that Kotaku found decided to rip people off. For about $30, Circuit City will make your X-Box 360 backwards compatable, as they claim (with an asterix) with all original X-Box games. (story: http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/sleazy-circuit-city-ripping-off-xbox-360-customers-198065.php)

This, in my opinion, is worse then what Best Buy did at the 360 launch. Its one thing to have people come into the store with no 360's, where the customer doesn't pay anything. But here, Circuit City is not only making a false promise, but doing something that you would get with the non-core 360 anyway; and I see no way of making the core 360 backwards compatable. Making empty promises for pure profit is not a way to run a business.

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