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[DoesWhatNintenDont]

I see MS being in trouble. Their hardware problems are already vaguely known to people who are buying video games, even if it's just for their grandkids. Case in point, yesterday at Gamestop here, a grandfather was asking the clerk about the problems with 360 due to the clerk attempting to push the system on the old man.

The general gaming consumer might put up with faulty hardware and the like, but the average person won't.

Would it make you feel better that when you buy a lemon car you have a good three year warranty for it? Everything would be paid for, and you don't even have to be reimbursed anymore. Would that make it all better when you know, the car will fail at some point, perhaps even repeatedly, and you will be forced to perhaps walk to a gas station, be stuck on the side of the road waiting for it to be towed, waiting for it to be fixed, having to strategize around not having a car for awhile, be late for work or other important aspects of your life, etc. etc.

I know that gamers will endure such pains for their favorite hobby, but anyone who thinks a new comer is going to take such hoopla with stride is fooling themselves.

I think MS has had a great chance at really destroying Sony this round. Something that was not really thought too possible, albeit a lot of this has to do with Sony's own fumbling time and time again. Problem is, even when MS has the ball and the open field is in front of them, the red lights of death will stop them in their tracks.