| ZenfoldorVGI said: It certainly deserves to go the way of the Dreamcast, the way Sony has ran it into the ground, but no. It has survived up to this point on brand name and RRoD fear alone, and it's at an unbelievably high price point. You believed the games would come because of the brand, and because you believed, the games did come. It was just a close call back there in 2007, but you made it though guys, by sipping the cool-aid....or maybe, just maybe, hope is a better way to put it. Is that an incorrect assessment? |
So the games don't matter anymore? Summer 2007, when the first party exclusives started rolling in non stop (on top of the 3rd party titles it was already getting), that wasn't the reason it was surviving? Like many have said, brand loyalty isn't THAT big a deal (especially when it was $600)....but now you're using it as only a talking point to try and back up your argument. Well I call BS on it. Either you stick with saying brand loyalty doesn't matter (meaning it's sold nearly 20 million with it's game library and multimedia functionality) or brand loyalty DOES matter (which is then a fallacy because it should thus be way ahead of the competition, or the past two Nintendo consoles should have mopped the floor with the competition considering the NES and SNES).
And RRoD fear? You act as if it's not real. Not even exxagerating, EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE that I know has got the RRoD except myself (I bought a 2nd gen Pro model) and one other friend of mine....and he's lucky he hasnt got it yet because he bought a refurb PREMIUM 360. It's probably bound to die on him eventually. If you saw 360s break down left and right, and then when discussing games, you always hear "the 360 and the PS3 basically have the same library, but the 360 is cheaper"....would YOU still get a 360 knowing it was prone to breaking? If it were me, I would have just manned up, coughed up the extra $100, and not have to worry about any hardware issues....ever
