MrStickball's "4 arguments X360 is for Hardcore Players" And Why It's Crap

[Just_Ben]

Quite a large and nice post, I just want to throw in my thoughts on the 4 statements.

 

mrstickball said:

"The Xbox 360 only appeals to hardcore PC/Console gamers"

Well, the word only is wrong, but there is a truth to the sentence, and thats in alliance with the next one:

 

mrstickball said:

"The Xbox 360 is only for FPS games"

 Again the word only. I would say the 360 is FPS centric, but microsoft do its best to change that. I personaly thought they would fail. But looking at Blue Dragon, and how much hardware it moved, they seem to succsess at core gamers other genres more and more. Only casual gamers don't use the box. Viva piniata sales show that. Guitar Hero may a casual title. But the numbers can also come from core/hardcore. These can buy casual titles, its just not working the other way arround. Microsoft failes missarbly at the hard casual, but they don't targeting them realy much right know. They target first the Hardcore, now the core and seem to be very successful with both. They begin to start to targeting the casual, and well it seems they start to have succsess. If they play their card rights, they could realy put up a fight against the Wii in NA, delaying the cross over to 2009.

mrstickball said:

"Software sales for the Xbox 360 are so high because the system is only bought by hardcore players"

 Only, you like the word, don't ya. Yes the Box is Core and Hardcore centric (at the moment). I personaly don't see a problem with that. That means higher attach rate then the Wii e.g.. For these higher Attach rate you need good games, but you need them anyway to get the core and hard core.

mrstickball said:

"The Xbox 360 is only being bought by Xbox owners, and won't sell more than 25m units"

Thats not even a statement. Thats things people say, if they don't have a statement ore argument left, and it is bs. The same goes fore "The Wii is not next gen", "120 Million PS2 owner wait to buy a PS3" etc. pp.