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coonana said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
coonana said:
JRPG said:
coonana said:
"The 360 has come a long way being the underdog at the very beginning of this console generation. No one thought microsoft would be doing this good back in 2005, but look at them now."

I was not aware the 360 was ever an underdog. MS has put so many resources into it and it was out way before the wii or ps3. Also third parties seem to like it best as well. 360 was never an underdog.

If you meant the original xbox then yes. MS has done a great job getting into a very hard market

 

The 360 was the underdog, because the original Xbox did not do very well. I think most people predicted it to be in third place at this point in time.

 

 

Kinda hard for it to be an underdog when it had no competitors for more than a year. Besides that I never people reaching a general consensus predicting it to be last. It started big and its tried to hold onto that. If anything people thought the other system would fail.

 

It was competing against the most succesful home console ever. Games like Final Fantasy XII, Shadow of the Colossus, God of War 2 or Okami were released for the ps2 with the X360 already in the market.

 

 Shadow of Colossus, Okami? These are your examples? They did not sell well. Besides that the 360 was being given plenty of very high profile games and had a very different market. They easily stood out in the market because no other next gen console had come out. MS spent millions getting special deals with third parties.

 

In other words 360 was not an underdog but the rich kid down the street that you always knew was going to college because of his backround. Not to mention some great games came out.

 

 

Now you're just talking rubbish. I'd quit while you're way behind - and then if I was you I'd go back and read some industry analysis circa 2004-2006. And then you might understand why Microsoft was unambiguously an underdog coming in to this generation.



 
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