How Microsoft's strategy is failing

[ookaze]

Logical fallacies, red herrings, strawmen: classic!
I know pretty well that MS can provide charts to try to prove the unprovable, I don't need to be convinced. I'm sure I know some of them too.
Heck, I even saw some weeks ago a thread on how the XB360 had the best games in almost every gaming genre, including platformers or even "casual" (in fact social) games. And a few people dared challenge this nonsense. There's no need to anyway.
I love how proving RROD is still there now is the burden of proof. Seems to me like proving it is no longer there should be the burden of proof. Of course, once again, MS knows pretty well how to shut off such things. The boards are still plenty with people saying they got RROD with their latest consoles.
Now, even though it was supposed to be there already, the new XB360 revision is supposed to come with the next 60 GB SKU.

I don't care really, except that such a poor reliability in consoles should never have happened.

You can see the strategy of HD consoles (not only XB360) has failed any way you look at it.
When you look at their message that HD is a great evolution, SD is bad, it's all good with rosy glasses. When you put true magnigying glasses, you see it for what it is: a big lie. Their biggest argument is based on a big lie. None of their big 1st party games are even HD! 640p, 600p, what a joke!
The only one that will perhaps deliver on its promise is Sony, and they're not even there yet.

And they mocked a console that didn't have HD! They reap what they sow.

Can they sustain this train wreck for long? I doubt it.
XB360 still lost a lot of money: $2.5 B. They still have to get that back to even be profitable.
People that say they will put out a XB720 or anything soon are laughable.
They just forgot about that money that they need to get back, they also forgot about all these new franchises that need to have at least 2 more episodes before the console stops selling.
Or will they all of that become lies too? Uh no, marketing, not lies. But then, how can people trust them, if everything they say is lies?

They put $1 B to repair consoles instead of fixing the problem. Sorry, but replacing easily your broken console is a NA only thing. In other countries it's not as simple, and this kind of thing should not happen anyway.