| Bboid said: It's funny you posted this picture because Microsoft has performed similarly to the United States military performance in Iraq. The short-term goal of the Xbox 360 was to penetrate the market and become a leader of HD console gaming. They did this at a cost though. They produced a horribly flawed unit (i love my unit but you can not argue against this) as a vehicle to achieve this goal (xbox 1 being the gulf war 1) and though the unit was successful in market penetration, they will be spending/have spent years correcting the issues. This almost directly compares to Iraq where we entered, stormed, won and after the fact spent years/are spending years solving the insurgency issue/infrastructure issues caused by an insufficient military presence at the initial invasion to control groups and underground insurgency.
Ironic huh?
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Actually, he was focusing on mission accomplished, not the quagmire in Iraq.
If you look at it, think about the facts. The U.S. has the biggest military in the world. The U.S. didn't heed prior warnings about Iraq and decided to go in and just knew they'd be "greeted as liberators." However, there has been an additional 4,000 soldiers were killed since "Mission Accomplished" was declared, the U.S. doesn't support this war and the presidential winner won the Democratic nod based on his opposition on the Iraq - and basically the insurgents will hide in the shadows and wait for an opportunity to pop a bomb just to let the U.S. and Iraqi forces to know 'we're still here.'
No, MS made mistakes, but they are winning the HD console war. It could be more like Korea - the U.S. won some battles, the North won some battles, but the war is on pause - no one won, no one lost. That's where we are right now. No one knows if MS will run out the clock and exit and claim the 2nd place crown. So what Ninny won - MS wanted to pay Sony back for whipping the Xbox like a stepchild.
