A question for those that consider themselves Xbox fans/ fanboys...

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Kantor said:

Cidien said:

Oh noes.  Evil ol' M$ is going to ruin gaming just like everything else!  Fact is, M$ has a monopoly on many of those things because nobody else puts out a decent alterntive.  People will probably continue putting out something to try to compete in the gaming world.  And if they don't?  Oh well.  Saves me money.  Now I only need to buy one system instead of two.  If M$ ever charges too much or provides a poor product then someone else will step in to compete with them.  The end.

If one company has enough of a domination, they can release almost anything and still remain the dominant company.

Look at Vista. At launch, it was a mess. They've fixed it, and people use it. Most people who don't use it use XP.

Gaming might be different though. Sony was dominant for two generations, the PS3 was "Vista", I suppose, started bad and got a lot better, and to be fair it did go into second (weekly sales) for quite a while, although the price eventually lowered sales again.

And look how many people still use the PS2.

 

Good analogy, the reason so many people have the PS2 is cause they stripped the PS3 backward capability out of it, the reason they lost sale to me, had to buy another PS2 instead of the PS3.