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chasmatic12 on 28 September 2008
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TheBigFatJ said:
chasmatic12 said:
TheBigFatJ said:

Yes, Sony makes a nicer product than Microsoft, that's for sure.

Every point you made as a positive for Sony is a negative for MS: their machine is loud, runs hot, has cheap crappy controllers, a bad and unintuitive interface (to be fair, MS has never been good at writing intuitive software), etc.

Also, BD players are $199 now. That makes the PS3 an outrageously expensive player and it doesn't even come with a proper remote.

 

I disagree with that. Their controllers are pretty durable. More-so than the PS3 controllers, at least.

And they're improving their interface this November. To be fair, Microsoft is learning from their mistakes. The new Vista is intuitive. Office 2007 is also very intuitive, imo.

 

Durability is only one aspect of controllers.  The Xbox 360 controllers are imprecise and have very shitty D-pads.  The D-pads are almost unusable.

Vista is not intuitive.  User access controls?  Are you kidding me?  Why not just let regular people manually configure their firewalls, because you're confusing them nearly as much with UAC.

MS has had a long time to copy a lot of better competitors and they failed again.  They ignored doing something like UAC a long time ago and now they've gone and done it to the point of uselessness. 

When it comes to software, Microsoft makes it unintuitive, takes the short view, and seems to have a bit of a problem when they actually have to compete (ie: the whole search fiasco for them).

You said "cheap crappy controllers," which references their durability. I responded to that. And yes, the D-Pad could be improved. But ya know what? I'd take the off-balanced dual analog over the PS3's balanced analogs any day.

Also, UACs are optional and don't have to be used. And intuitiveness is an opinion. I find OS X more intuitive (I love Leopard), but I can't deny Vista. It's gotten much better.