| Final-Fan said: But in your previous post, you seemed to say that Sony's mistake was greater than Microsoft's. I disagree with that. Sony and Microsoft each made equally huge missteps in different areas of console design. I think that the kind of mistake Microsoft made is more damaging in the long term, but I concede that an intelligent person, faced with the same information, might reasonably disagree. |
Well, let's not forget the post I was replying too. This was the sentence: "They were so paranoid about 'being the most powerfull!!1!!one!!11!!eleven'." And I do think Sony really blew it that way. Sematics of design vs. implementation aside, their requirements were way too ambitious from the get-go. Microsoft, on the other hand, blew it much later in the process. Which is not to say they didn't blew it in a significantly worse way: in many ways they did.
Actually, I guess the only way Sony's sin is worse, is that Sony really did intend to "design" their console this way (with Bluray, and the Cell, and whatnot), whereas Microsoft obviously (I hope) didn't intend to "design" a faulty console.
