| ZenfoldorVGI said: To be clear with my answer to the OP, the frustration over the PS3 has been showing for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNGGGG time, from all of its champions, including Sony. Nothing has began here. Why do you think this generation is so polarizing? The PS3 didn't live up to the PS2, and people had the sheer audacity to claim that MS's console was almost as good, and cheaper, so the PS3 fans have gone on a massive press campaign, in order to diminish competition's standing in general perception, and damage control all of the PS3s faults...even undefendable faults, like the price. In that case, we are asked by PS3 fans to put ourselves in Sony's shoes. We can't, afterall, ask a multimillion dollar company to spend money on its hardcore fan press-team(despite the fact that we have spent thousands of dollars on their products over the years, and bought PS3s for 599 US dollars). We must support them with as much money as we can raise. They are a business afterall, and if the end result is we pay more for less, then that is how it must be. Otherwise, Sony would have to lose more of their profit, in their attempt to make us adopt blu-ray at the expense of the Playstation brand. |
That's not the claim.
The claim is that 360 is better hardware nevermind that it's loud and breaks a lot, with better online nevermind that it's pay-to-play, that it has more games nevermind that it released first (causing the hardware problems by trying to be the fastest it could be), that it's a success and the PS3 a failure nevermind that PS3 has sold faster since launch at higher price, that HD-DVD is awesome HD movies aren't worth shit nevermind that Blu-Ray is growing well in the midst of a recession, that HDMI doesn't matter, oh nevermind: 360 can do 1080p too, that PS3 is too expensive nevermind that XBLive and possible 360 accessories can rocket the price of 360 above that of PS3, that Blu-Ray is the cause of all woes even though the drive is not a large component of console cost nowadays, that Sony copies Nintendo nevermind where MS got the idea for a different control scheme and Sony will get their proposed new controls out first, that Sony hates their customers nevermind Linux and the PS3's universal hard drive vs. the proprietary expensive hard drives of 360, and loads of other FUD I can't remember off the top of my head.
So yeah, frustration at certain things has been around for a while. (Including that the yen is still historically quite strong, which has a huge impact upon the price of PS3 in US dollars.)
Another thing that has been around for a while is FUD.
Hey question, if MS had put an HD DVD drive or Blu-Ray drive in 360 and launched later and gotten crushed by PS3, would you hate microsoft? For getting crushed, or specifically for including a high-capacity disk format that could play HD movies in their console?
