Diomedes1976 said:
I hope you are the little brat on the photo because if you are any older its a real shame.For you ,I mean. Maybe we arent that stupid mind you.Maybe we just prefered to buy a console that didnt RROD on us ,that had backwards compatibility with PS1 and PS2(at least the 60GB with both) ,that had assured us from the word go the games we were waiting without having to cross the fingers and hope and pray for a last minute port due to MS signing big checks. Maybe we just noticed the PS3 had Wifi built in so we hadnt to wire all the house to the disgust of our girlfriends (when you grow older you will understand) or families.Maybe the wireless and battery-free controllers were just a plus over the 360. Maybe we understood that the console was fully operative in an HDTV and if you had one of these the Blu Ray was a massive plus. Maybe we just dont want to pay Bill Gates and MS 60 euros a year for the rest of our lifes to play online when we can do the same for free with the Sony system. Maybe we didnt want to support the really poor MS products as its underperforming and resources consuming Windows.So we didnt want to support with the 360 all the propietary software of MS that goes with it:DirectX ,XNA ,Windows,etc. Maybe we just realized that 95% of X360 games would be coming sooner or later for PC(that we all have got or will have to buy another in few time) while the PS3 exclusives are really exclusives. Maybe the fact of being able to use all our PC accesories (keyboards,headsets,HDDs) was really attractive without having to pay those overpriced X360 accesories and we made some numbers.Maybe we arent stupid at all .....maybe YOU are stupid for not having thought about any of this dont you think?
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A lot of good points. From what I can see, people here view the 360 as third choice because:
- PlayStation and Nintendo = gaming. Microsoft doesn't have a legacy.
- Microsoft have an extremely bad reputation here and people would prefer not to give them their money if possible.
- The PS3 has a very similar library so there's no huge draw in terms of a massive exclusive library.
- Paying for online is considered too far when the other consoles have free online and almost everything on the internet is free. We already pay for the internet and for games, we shouldn't have to pay more to play those games on the internet.
- The Wii is viewed as a family console, the PS3 viewed as for mature (as in over 26) gamers, and the 360 viewed as for teenage boys. There are fewer teenage boys than the other two groups.
- The PS3 has blu-ray.
- All the hype's with the Wii so it's what new gamers and those unsure exactly what they want will buy.
- And most importantly of all, RRoD. The three year warranty has improved things, but not much, because it shouldn't be happening in the first place. We expect products to do what they say and to do it for as long as we want them to. Products dying because they weren't made properly is just completely and totally unacceptable here. From what I can gather on here Americans don't seem to feel the same way, they just view it as an annoyance. I really can't emphasise how strongly Europeans view it as a disgrace, a rip-off and a con. We're used to our electronics lasting until we want to replace them with something new, we are not used to having them conk out. We will not buy products that do that.
