Why Microsoft entered the Console War

[Ausfalcon]

Final-Fan said:
To expand on the above, I've seen (a while back when I was in several threads with him) how he has a tendency to relate anything good to being 'like the Amiga' in some way. I really think the best explanation of that is that he has some kind of Amiga fetish, rather than trolling for profit. The PS3 connection is more arguable, but I suspect the same mentality.

That mentality: Amiga and PS3 are each some sort of heaven-sent device that is a technical masterpiece, ahead of its time, but died through no fault of its own / is being marginalized through no fault of its own. Any attack on (or criticism of) these (from a technological standpoint) will be regarded as misguided at best and, at worst, jealous hatred, because there is nothing about them that was not the best available choice.

There are a couple of interesting posts this morning over on one of the Amiga forums in regard to this with MikeB:

t wrote:

"Misinformation and deceiving as a tactics of promotion, didn't we see that from MikeB &Co during the "A1"/amigaworld.net/nazimoderation days some years ago? Yes, history is definitely repeating itself..."

above from: http://moobunny.dreamhosters.com/cgi/mbmessage.pl/amiga/162205.shtml

 

XraalE wrote:

"Only a matter of time before he signs up with multiple accounts to "support" his own comments. I'm still laughing at the threads uncovered from ancient Moobunny where he was surrounded by maybe a dozen supporters. Then John marked each post with its IP and all the supporters were revealed to magically have the same IP address..."

above from: http://moobunny.dreamhosters.com/cgi/mbmessage.pl/amiga/162208.shtml