Do you think the 360 'deserved' to be selling much better?

[S.T.A.G.E.]

Groucho said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
MS deserves to make more money and has thought more about the target demographics that they had their eye on. Their first Xbox was a piece of crap. The core idea behind the 360 is what is deserving, the fact that they pushed it and the quality was questionable is minor. They payed out over a billion extra to try and fix the problem. Sony came out with a solid entertainment system and ended up losing billions. You do the math.

Umm... Sony spent a few billion developing the PS3.  So... you're comparing that to the 1 billion extra that MS paid out for a RRoD replacement program, and saying that... what?  Developing the XBox360 was included in that 1 billion MS paid out for replacement units?  Lol.  I think before you "do the math" you need to be using the right numbers.

 ...I fixed your post for ya.

 

 The payout by MS was not extra, its put into another book of expenses (IE: Fixing the RROD problem and increasing the 3 year warranty). If you want to talk about extra or additionals, it would be for the newer models with the falcon chip in it. Sony spent what they had to spend and I am not arguing with it, but they've had to cut the production costs by half because the market was not responding to their system the way they should. In price cut and MGS coming out increased sales by 180%. Microsoft made mistakes and they fixed the majority of them. If you stay on the past too much you'll give yourself a heart attack. In 2006 there was a 30% RROD rate, in 2007 it dropped down to 16%, now its far less than ever. Based on the Idea and goals MS was focused on they DESERVE to sell more than Sony, because obviously they were thinking about the gaming more. Sony said it themselves at E3 that they were now focused on the gaming. This is because of the stabilization of Blu Ray, which was Sony's initial goal.