What if Microsoft had done it?

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solinox said:

I've been scouring these boards for a while and it just seems that Sony can't seem to please anyone. I read about how they have all these different sku's out, but M$ has 3 of them out right now. They also have a special Halo one out too. The Elite with HDMi 120gb HDD, the Core with out HDMi and no HDD, the 20gb HDD sku. Yet no ones bashes them.

As for backwards compatibilty, M$ has all but stopped caring about that, yet when Sony does, everyone is again bashing them. Yes, I know, they promised. So did M$. Heck, Microsoft were the ones that said HDMI isn't needed, yet a year later they add it on, yet I see no threads about how they are liars.

Everyone is being too hard on Sony, seriously. The games are finally out, they have a lower priced sku and people are still complaining. Ask yourselves this, if the PS3 had the failure rate of the 360 would people be as calm and understanding as they're being towards Microsoft? Heck no. Give'em a break. What have they done to deserve such scourn? More importantly, do they deserve it more than their competitors? Nope.

 

 As far as Microsoft "all but stop caring"about backward compatibility, I think you should probably rethink that one... they MAY have lost some desire to make it happen as of the very recent moment, but they have regularly updated the BC list and added games... That las update was July something of this year which added or updated approximately 61 games.  Only a handful of those were updates -- the rest were new games added to the list.  Link:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm

We'll see if they continue to add to the list over time, but for now, I'd say it is an "earnest" effort to make BC happen on a broad range of titles. 

As far as multiple SKUs, Microsoft has taken plenty of heat for having so many variations... look around the web a bit more.  Now Sony is doing it and it is their turn to draw scorn.

Make no mistake... Microsoft has taken plenty of heat for myriad issues such as RRoD, Multiple SKUs, non 100% backward compatibility when BC was a selling point at launch, and so on.  The point is that these arguments have been beaten to death and are stale.  Now it's Sony's turn in the grist mill.  Unfortnately, that seems to be how the media works...  like a pack of rabid dogs...