Whoa now, I had NO IDEA that a standard USB keyboard could be used on the 360. I thought it wasn't supported and just never tried it.Niode wrote:This seems such an odd move on Microsoft's part. It's almost as if they want to shaft the customer in every single way possible.
Yes the proprietary wireless adaptor is sucky, but you can get around that by buying a wireless bridge (which is more flexible and works better) for half the price. A wireless headset isn't that essential since the one you get free plugs into the controller anyway, and since the controller is wireless and the cord for the headset isn't longer than your arms, what's the problem? Likewise with the chatpad, aside from being a little more convenient since it's attached to the bottom of your controller there isn't anything stopping you using a regular USB keyboard for chat/text input, who hasn't got one those spare? Even my wireless one with a dongle works perfectly fine. So the whole proprietary addons isn't that much of a big deal, there are alternatives and workarounds, but forcing people to only buy an official memory card stings a little. Especially since the users the Arcade (or whatever it's called now) is marketed to, wouldn't especially know not to use third party memory cards, so these customers will get the shaft and not even know what has hit them.
What Im really complaining about is that MS won't let third partys help them on the hardware side of things. I have always used third party stuff. and while some of it is crap alot of it I like better than first party stuff. Its not that much of an inconvenience to me, but it just pisses me off.
