| NightDragon83 said: The no mandatory camera is the only actual advantage I see there... good luck finding a bare-bones $399 SKU at launch that isn't automatically bundled with other crap. The "better PR" point is completely up for debate because up until about 2-3 years ago Sony was getting their asses handed to them in the PR department. This little DRM snafu has only been going on for a few weeks now, and will be all but forgotten at launch... Sony is still smarting from the nightmare that was "five hundred and ninety-nine US dollarz". Supply is also something that's debatable because Sony has to deal with supply for 3 major regions, while M$ only really has to deal with two since the Japanese are too xenophobic to buy a videogame console not made by a Japanese company, and which doesn't feature a healthy library of JRPGs, remakes of old JRPGs, dating sims, and JRPGs. |
Yea well, they're usually bundled with a game, so that's kinda pointless point to argue (you're gonna get a system without a game?) and if you answer is I'm not interested in any of these launch game, why the hell are you even buying the system? Wait for a game you want to come out you faboy :P
But regardless, MS is still more expensive no matter how you wanna spin it.
With respect to PR, Sony has been getting positive press even before the DRM fiasco, their policy with indie devs was picked up my multiple sites for example, but really the more important thing with respect to PR is that MS turn the ship around in time to rescue their launch; 5 months is a lot of time.
Overall I think the only people displeased by this news are diehard fanboys. If not for the 360, The PS3 would never have achieved one third of the things it did. Sony was dragged kicking and screaming into standardised online gaming and it took them a really long time to come up with a value-added proposition that could equal and even improve upon Xbox-Live. Consumer need both platform to be alive and healthy to keep corporation honest.
