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Reasonable said:
Their strategy was flawed, but MS still widened the gap when Sony tried to close it last year. You have to admit that it's impressive or else you are willingly blind. Going from a closing 5 M console gap to a 8 M console gap is worthy of applause.
And it should thank the economic depression for it. Sony (problably) would have cut the price in the end of 2008 and sell much more than it did, maybe offsetting the months MS had and its festivities sales as well. I am sure that at the very least it wouldnt be at 8 million gap it is now.
MS really went for Sony, true, and mainly using a big wallet, but I really doubt the damage inflicted was more than a fraction of what Sony inflicted on itself.
Oh trust me....Microsoft is hurting Sony...so bad Sony actually wanted to team up with them against Nintendo. Microsoft declined and said they wanted to destroy Sony, so Sony acted like they didn't exist. :)
I am not around gaming foruns as much as I was back in the day...link it to a source, a factual one if you may, so I could read about it...
It's called a warranty. Any customer who is smart and purchases and console at a retail store should buy a 3 year warranty service so they can have their console replaced. I don't bother with the shitty service of MS nor Sony. I go through middlemen. Trust me....you'll almost never be dissatisfied if you do it that way. This is my 99.9 percent guarantee. My old 360 had the RROD today. I replaced it within two hours at best buy with a Jasper edition of the 60 GB 360.
A bit convenient as a argument, but believable.
The only reason the Japanese find no reason to buy a 360 is because it's not Japanese and they already have two national systems to support. The reason JRPG's are selling slow in Japan is all Sony's fault. MS is squeezing as much as they can this gen out of Sony, so that next gen they can focus on that built base. Quality is not the reason the Japanese wont buy 360's at a larger rate. It's because it's an American console and they find no reason to buy a console from America when they can get it at home in Japan. Microsoft left them with little choice if they want JRPG's.
There are more than the reasons you said, like the RRoDs killing the will to buy it, X to the japanese means 'no good', and so on. About the JRPGs...its sad really. MS knows that its only way to succed in Japan is having some. They payed for them and it reached some success (heck, it will reach a million units sold, wich is quite incredible), but at the cost of pointed games being easily forgoten by its main fans (wich were on PS, or ended up transfering to Wii). NIce. Its not Sony's fault. ITs MS's and the market fault. Either buy it on a machine you will end up returning at a loss to the nearest Book Off outlet (you may add any other outltet that re-sells things like Yodobashi Camera, Yamada Denki and so... if it doesnt burn in your tiny appartment that is) or wait to get it on a PS3 later on (its quite possible and I would even say its freaking stupid if it doesnt happen...)
Choices...they're some nasty bitches arent they? Sony choose to put all that tech into the PS3, hopeing to achieve great success by beying the most powerfull console out in the gen (lets forget the Blu-Ray debacle....yeah right...). Then the price killed it, other stupid choices and its arrogance came out to kick the already hurted Sony...MS just there paying its way to try and give a final blow (wich it wont, sorry fanboys, if it happen, it will be the worlds economical problems not MS, even if they want oh so much to clain the spot) while doing some stupid things as well, but being so full of cash to spent thanks to a - I hope dearly - dying monopoly in the OS market, they are out to try and contain Sony's wishes to reach their main goal: as mcany home's main entertaining rooms they can, any way available, by any means.
And then Nintendo... just caring less about all as long their pools of money are filled properly.
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