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pbroy on 14 October 2008
Jo21 said:
Jackson50 said:

Jo21 said:
games are target for the americans, low price, they buy hip things not matter if they are not as high quality as japanese counterparts.

look at cars.
honda toyota ford GM=chevrolet
Civic > Corolla > Focus > Optra.
but overall americans cars sell better.
europeans and japanese are smart people.

A) You are ignorant. The Toyota Corolla and the Honda Civic have been the best selling cars in America since the mid-90s when the Ford Taurus held the spot. 

B) The American companies have steadily improved their quality. According to "Consumer Reports," Ford is now equal with Toyota and other Japanese automakers in regards to quality.

C) Even if all of the previous bunkum you said was true, it would only make sense if the Xbox was consistently outselling a "superior" Japanese product. It is not and it has not, however, consistently outsold a "superior" Japanese product. Both the PS2 and the Wii have outsold the "inferior" American product. 

a. i didn't sell they sell bad, but OVERALL, ford and GM sell better in america.

toyota and honda are worldwide respected as nintendo and sony, but it took a raise in prices of oil to get them noticed.

and recently Toyota passed GM.

b. how about gas mileage... ? average gas mileage compared to japanese brands, there are many points people

you can say the american have have a 150 horse power and the jap a 100 but the 150 eats 15 miles  1 galons of gasoline

 and the japan can go over 35 miles easily per galon.

especially for someone that only uses the car to go to work those extra miles are more useful than 50 extra power.

c. the japanese make good products, and last gen was known ps2 had a bigger game library making it superior.

 

 

 

If your into the car scene, you would know that Honda and Toyota are probably the most popular when it comes to Import Tuning. Years ago, when me and my friends were into hooking cars up, everyone raved about Honda and Toyota. They were the hip cars to own.

b. Please don't say that, if you respect them so much.

c.  What does having a bigger library have to do with improving the quality of how a product is built? The 360 has a better library, but that doesn't make my 360 want to RROD any less.

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d21lewis on 14 October 2008

Backlash. Every now and then, it's good to shake things up. Sony was too arrogant after being number 1 for a decade, so I called up the boys. Put those guys back in check. Word of mouth and good value helped too.



Jo21 on 14 October 2008
pbroy said:
Jo21 said:
Jackson50 said:

Jo21 said:
games are target for the americans, low price, they buy hip things not matter if they are not as high quality as japanese counterparts.

look at cars.
honda toyota ford GM=chevrolet
Civic > Corolla > Focus > Optra.
but overall americans cars sell better.
europeans and japanese are smart people.

A) You are ignorant. The Toyota Corolla and the Honda Civic have been the best selling cars in America since the mid-90s when the Ford Taurus held the spot. 

B) The American companies have steadily improved their quality. According to "Consumer Reports," Ford is now equal with Toyota and other Japanese automakers in regards to quality.

C) Even if all of the previous bunkum you said was true, it would only make sense if the Xbox was consistently outselling a "superior" Japanese product. It is not and it has not, however, consistently outsold a "superior" Japanese product. Both the PS2 and the Wii have outsold the "inferior" American product. 

a. i didn't sell they sell bad, but OVERALL, ford and GM sell better in america.

toyota and honda are worldwide respected as nintendo and sony, but it took a raise in prices of oil to get them noticed.

and recently Toyota passed GM.

b. how about gas mileage... ? average gas mileage compared to japanese brands, there are many points people

you can say the american have have a 150 horse power and the jap a 100 but the 150 eats 15 miles  1 galons of gasoline

 and the japan can go over 35 miles easily per galon.

especially for someone that only uses the car to go to work those extra miles are more useful than 50 extra power.

c. the japanese make good products, and last gen was known ps2 had a bigger game library making it superior.

 

 

 

If your into the car scene, you would know that Honda and Toyota are probably the most popular when it comes to Import Tuning. Years ago, when me and my friends were into hooking cars up, everyone raved about Honda and Toyota. They were the hip cars to own.

b. Please don't say that, if you respect them so much.

c.  What does having a bigger library have to do with improving the quality of how a product is built? The 360 has a better library, but that doesn't make my 360 want to RROD any less.

here mitsubishi take the price for tuning, but in early days before the oil crisis,  japanese companies were not big in america.

it took a recession to people go for cheaper cars and with better mileage.

ps2 library was bigger, and the hardware is more reliable than 360 and xbox.

of course 360 have a good library but most of the titles are multiplatform and it had 2 years of over 16% of failure rate.

 

 



shakunage on 14 October 2008
Everstar said:
oliminator1994 said:
i call it inpatience

 

 

Why should we have to wait for good games to come out on the PS3 when the 360 has a ton of them already?

 

No you went ahead and got okay/good games. I wait for epic  games. Like Sakurai Says- "A rushed game is bad forever. a delayed game is eventually good"



wakawakawa on 14 October 2008

I think in the US (probably true for Europe, too), a lot of people bought 360s for current games, when people bought PS3s for future games.

Maybe there are a lot more impulsive, I want it now people in the US. I don't think this is really a bad thing. People are buying the product which is satisfying them.

You could go on and on about how great Gears was when it was released, but a PS3 gamer was content talking about how great MGS4 was going to be.




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Millennium on 15 October 2008
Everstar said:
Millennium said:
Two words: SHOOTAN GAEMS

And the PS3 dosent have a lot of those 2?

It does, but if it wants to get the NA fanbase then it's doin it wrong. Sony's shooters tend to get too tied up in style and story and artistic flair, not the raw, visceral hormone rush that shooter fans crave. Microsoft understands that much: give them a gritty brown color scheme, buckets of blood, and the most generic photorealism you possibly can, and the player's endocrine system will do the rest of the work for you.



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joshin69 on 15 October 2008

No one will like me for this but i still believe that given the choice or chance Americans will buy American.



 

 assumption is the mother of all f**k ups 

Sylvarantinc on 15 October 2008

Because MS has done some great brand building in the us, it has managed to associate xbox with great online play and bad ass games



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Acevil on 15 October 2008
JPSandhu said:
BeTa77 said:
USA is NA, here in canada the PS3/Wii are most popular.

 

man stop lying, everyone has a 360 here

 

It goes Wii>360>PS3....this is based off NPD Canada. Beta77 you shouldn't base your assumtions on your friends or a retail store you might work at.



 

Everstar on 15 October 2008
Millennium said:
Everstar said:
Millennium said:
Two words: SHOOTAN GAEMS

And the PS3 dosent have a lot of those 2?

It does, but if it wants to get the NA fanbase then it's doin it wrong. Sony's shooters tend to get too tied up in style and story and artistic flair, not the raw, visceral hormone rush that shooter fans crave. Microsoft understands that much: give them a gritty brown color scheme, buckets of blood, and the most generic photorealism you possibly can, and the player's endocrine system will do the rest of the work for you.

Right......

 



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