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Articles about pns: November 20, 2008

Unecessary Necessities: Microsoft Point converters

by PJ Hruschak on Apr 16, 2008 at 07:28 AM

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If you want to purchase downloadable games on the current generation of consoles, only one company has made it counter-intuitive. It’s not Sony - they charge actual $US money for games. Neither is it Nintendo, which uses and one-to-one, point-to-penny system.

Why the hell, then, does Microsoft bother with a non-equal point system? I have two guesses: misdirection and laziness.

For those of you who fear math, click through and check out a few online and downloadable Microsoft Point converters…

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Sections: Features, How-To, Consoles, Xbox, Xbox-360, Ads & Media, Web, Updates, Playstation-Store, Wii-Virtual-Console, Xbox-Live

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