yeah, AA batteries are included with a lot of electronics. To date though, I can’t think of any device I own that has standard rechargeable batteries included with them. Anything that I have that comes with a rechargeable battery usually uses a proprietary batter, or a common form factor battery….but never a AA size battery.
yeah, you have some rechargeable batteries now, and that’s good, not just for the environment, but for financial reasons. But, at some point, you brought those rechargeable batteries and the charger for them.
If MS provided rechargeable batteries out of the box, and allowed you to charge them in the controller itself, and they were removeable, you can still play without the batteries plugged in. If you wanted, you can still get a secondary charger, and MS could even sell an officially branded replacement set/charger if they wanted to at a rediculous mark up.
My point was that if given the choice of just getting these batteries up front, would people not use them because they want to use regular AA batteries? He said that the desire to use rechargeable versus standard was 50/50. Was that actual desire, or just general usage? I’m pretty sure if you give people those batteries up front, they’re going to be more likely to recharge them, rather than going to buy a set of rechargeable batteries, or just replace them with standard batteries, and their percentages would be changed.
basically, I’m calling them out for using their percentages to make their decision seem like they’re doing right by the consumer by charging for a rather costly addition, with the only way to buy it being through them, or some knock off version of the play n’ charge kit.
I don’t really see why my proposal is always so vehemently opposed by the Xbox crowd who loves to go on about MS battery solution. It seems like you get the best of all worlds if they just give a set of rechargeable batteries with the system/controllers themselves. Removeable, so you still get that. Rechargeable, so they take care of this smart consumer thing that you saw the long term value. Easily replaceable, because apparently that is something that has to be done a lot due to non-removable batteries. Win win win. Only one losing out is MS, who makes 10-20 cents less per unit delivered.
As far as having to get a long USB cable….those are probably more common around a person’s house than AA batteries nowadays. I also have a USB cable behind my couch….or rather built into my end table, but I haven’t brought a USB cable in forever, and that was because everything switched to USB-C, and I need it for my phone in the car. I guess my question to you on this point though is this…..do you get all upset that you have to plug in your phone? did you never have your phone charging by the couch? I’ve had a USB cable at places I spend a lot of time at for a while now. I never even thought twice about it, and realistically, it’s rare I need to charge my controller when I’m actually playing.
