Grahamhsu said:
jcp234 said:
I think the 360 is doing a great job considering 1) it released a year before the competition 2) the bad publicity surrounding past counsel defects 3) Sony brand loyalty in Europe and 4) it's historical poor performance in Japan.
Microsoft is doing a good job turning the 360 around considering its series of unfortunate events.
I think some posters are ignoring a lot of different factors. Also consider, at this point, Microsoft's main goal is to compete with the PS3 which it already has a comfortable lead over. Granted the PS3 has been eating away at that lead recently, but the price cut will reverse that trend.
I cannot be 100% sure, but I feel comfortable stating that the 360 will make significant gains in the market over the remainder of the year.
I also think it's funny that some individuals are downplaying the current state of the economy. I can only attribute this to ignorance or lack of exposure to what's really going on with the economy. I am employed in the field of finance...scary and hard times are ahead. |
I think anyone downplaying the state of economy is either too young to understand what's going on, or not from America. Wamu my bank just got bought by the FDIC to prevent it from going bankrupt. Wamu is..scratch that, was among the top ten biggest banks in America. It's one of the biggest banks to fail in history. If someone were to tell me a a couple months ago I should find a new bank because they'd go bankrupt I wouldn't believe them. I didn't even believe it when rumors said a week ago that Wamu might go bankrupt.
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WaMu was purchased by JPMorgan Chase Bank, it didn't go under.
Still, the economy point is very valid. There is colossal economic turmoil in the US right now, relative to the rest of the entire console gaming era, from before there even were video games.
