IainWell despite having several years of chances now, most peripherals for the current generation of consoles have been either useful or at least worked how they were meant to, although there are still a few things that have could rival the Power Glove
So with that in mind, here’s my run through of 5 7th gen peripherals that just shouldn’t have been made
5:Chat pads
Ok so they do work and they help with things like web browsing on the PS3 and MSN on the 360 but I don’t know a single person (myself included) who has bought one of these for either console and used it enough to justify the price of buying it. For a start, both consoles feature voice chat which is far easier than having to stop and type out a message in the middle of a firefight and secondly, it’s cheaper to get a usb keyboard if you’re planning to use it with PS3′s web browser
4: PS2 to PS3 Memory Card Adaptor
This is a strange one because the Playstation 3 no longer has any PS2 backward compatibility so unless you’re looking for an elusive second hand 60gb model, there is absolutely no point to buying this. Second of all, the Playstation 3 has a virtual memory card creator so the only reason anyone would ever buy this wo
uld be if they had a 60GB PS3 and a memory card full of PS2 save games. In the long run it would’ve been cheaper to buy an 80GB PS3 and a second hand PS2…
On the other hand, the Nyko PS3 USB Media Hub (pictured) is a great idea, adding two extra USB slots and a card reader to the PS3
3:Wii Sports Accessories
What is the point of these cheap, plastic and often useless “accesories”? just because I get to swing a controller like a golf club, doesn’t mean i want to pay between £5 and £20 for a piece of plastic to put on the end of my Wiimote.
Seriously, if dodging and diving around on my bed like a lunatic while playing Wii Sports wasn’t bad enough, You can now buy Wii boxing gloves to really make yourself look like you’re on a day trip from the mental home.
2:Wii Wireless Sensor Bar
Yet another Wii peripheral on the list (surprise, surprise. The console is full of useless things like this). Now I can understand people buying this if they have their Wii too far away to get the sensor bar near the telly but if they cant get the sensor bar to reach, how the hell are they getting the AV cable to stretch because out of the two, the sensor bar has the longest wire! On top of this, there hasn’t been a single wireless sensor bar released for the wii that hasn’t had reports of a poor wiimote detection and the ability to chew up AA batteries like a fat kid in a sweet shop.
1: Xbox 360 HD DVD player
OK, so it’s not so much useless, infact it was a really good alternative to Bluray, but it was never going to win the battle and most people knew it from the start. Only a handful of studios backed it and hardly anyone bought it until stores started discontinuing and selling it for around £25. HD DVD’s could only really be found in specialist shops and online even at the peak of the HD-DVD’s life span, compared to Bluray which could be bought in most stores with a DVD section and the initial add-on pricing of around £120 meant people could have bought a Playstation 3 with built in bluray player for another £50 or so more than the Xbox and HD-DVD drive combined.
