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Ascended_Saiyan3 on 27 April 2009
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
joshin69 said:
sega4life said:

The PRICE Sony set for their console at E3 in the beginning shows Sony's ignorance... and their attitude of "we are Sony ! so buy it." type attitude..

 

 " ignorance", "arrogance". Two words often used to describe Sony. For me those are the sort of words i use to describe companies who knowingly release faulty hardware to get the edge over their competition and then when it becomes apparent how faulty it is come up with a plan that gives them three years to get the problem sorted instead of product recall which in any other industry would be a given. For me i feel MS have been rewarded for damaging the console scene, for sure the build quality of all machines in the next generation is a lot more likely to be worse than in other generations, MS have proved it can be gotten away with and rewarded for.

So no I'm not happy, but that is life.

You obviously do not know what ignorance and arrogance applies to. Microsoft was trying to beat Sony to the punch. The word for that is called desperation, not arrogance. Sony had the fault hardware last gen trying to beat the Xbox out of the gate. Should I call your way of thinking a double standard or not? MS isn't alone in damaging the console scene because both they and Sony are in this console race for all the wrong reasons. Sony wants to monopolize the gaming market so they can use it to control formats, because in the electronics depardment they will get their asses handed to them by the likes of Panasonic and Samsung.

 

Arrogance would be not recalling your faulty product when the failure rates became possibly the highest in consumer electronics history. Just letting the issue sit unsolved for almost 2 years and making people buy new consoles would be arrogance.

Ignorance is not observing the consumer trends (like HDMI and native 1080p TVs that were already on the market) when building your console.

Arrogance is saying that NO PS3 games would look better than X360 games.  Arrogance would be making a statement like native 1080p is impossible this gen.  Actually, that would be a little bit of ignorance mixed in as well.  Arrogance is thinking their money can get them out of any situation or make people highly compliant (see $3.2 Billion viral campaign against PS3). Etc, etc.  The viral campaign seemed to work for a long time, though.  Hell, there are STILL a bunch of people that hang onto that crap info they were fed a couple years ago. *cough, cough*  The same thing happened with MS support of HD DVD.  Remember, MS office of HD DVD Evangelism?  I think they just took off the HD DVD part and continued their style into the console war.