Games Console Accessories (rant).

[Seventh777]

So, with Xmas rapidly approaching, I like many other parents have children to buy presents for, and a majority of us will buy presents that are game console related, my son's favoured console atm is his PS3, with this in mind I set off up town to have a looksie at what PS3 stuff was on offer, after some deliberating between headsets ranging from £9.99 - £299 I opted for this.......





A gaming char that I was unreliably informed at Argos was compatible for every latest version games console out there, I bought it, my son came down yesterday and as he will be staying at his mum's for Xmas for this year we decided Xmas was yesterday lol, his eyes popped out of his head when he unwrapped the chair and I duly put it together for him.

I don't know who to blame for what happened next - Sony for not having a jack plug audio input option on their PS3, or X Rocker the makers of the chair for not having an HDMI input, okay the chair isn't capable of video based options so the need for a HMDI input were overlooked, completely forgetting that audio also comes in with HDMI connections but they could have supplied one of these for the wireless transmitter.............






These chairs are a huge seller atm and we can safely assess that around 50% of the buyers, are buying them for kids that use a PS3 console, that's a whole heap of pissed off kids come Xmas and nowhere open to buy the cable needed for the PS3.

So, in the nutshell - Argos....Train your staff so they at least know the basics of products you are selling, X-Rocker - Next time you create a product that is *Compatible* with every console out there, take a few minutes out to research the latest consoles out there and their relative video/audio input/output options, before selling items that are clearly not compatible until the customer has bought extra items.

 

[PNEFOREVER2]

Considering the price you pay for these items you'd think they would include the basics like the necessary wires.

 

[vinylweatherman]

Considering the price you pay for these items you'd think they would include the basics like the necessary wires.

They should. Fancy selling a gaming chair that is not compatible with a PS3! All they needed to do was include a few cables to make it so.

If there are loads of pissed off kids, there is going to be loads of flak directed at x-Rocker come the new year. I bet they will then claim it's a "basic model", and buyers shouldn't have expected better.

The big problem with Argos is that you can't look around the product on the shelves, you are reliant on the information given in the catalog or on the website.

The staff at many of these places are well known as mostly not having a clue what they are talking about, but are trained to look as though they do.

Back in the Windows 98 days, I asked staff at Dixons/PC World THREE TIMES about getting a graphics card for the PC I had bought from them. I got three different answers, and worst of all, three WRONG answers.

I would have looked at the Gadget show website as they often review the latest gaming gadgets. They would have spotted this pretty quickly had they reviewed this chair.

For the grown-ups, the Gadget show have given the Lay-Z Boy gadget chair the highest ratings. It has a beer fridge and the arms lift up for storage. It can also be wired for sound and has a massage option.

They are not cheap though, well over £1000.

I am considering something in their range and then banning my niece from ever sitting in it to really piss her off. She just won't shut up about me "needing a new sofa/suite", even though I don't need any more than a single chair, it is SHE that needs me to have a nice sofa. Cheap sofa for them, Lay Z boy for me

 

[Seventh777]

Considering the price you pay for these items you'd think they would include the basics like the necessary wires.

My sentiments entirely, at the very least there should have been a buyer beware label stuck to it, forewarning us that adapter cables are needed for PS3's, absence of both - cables needed, or a buyer beware label, tell me 100% that those that developed this chair were oblivious to this, roughly 50% of those sold will be going to PS3 owners, owners of consoles the dev's failed to cater for in any sense, appalling pre marketing research imho.