| canch said: his part of the article is true and not so true...... 'The Xbox exists to stop the PlayStation brand from succeeding, and MS essentially stuck its big nose into an industry that it didn't really have any business getting involved with' Microsoft did indeed make the xbox to stop Sony claiming the front room to itself. Not from games but from digtal downloads like movies, music on demand TV, shopping etc and knew Sony was well place to take advanage of all this. In turn Sony became a major threat to MS and MS had to do something to counter this. But the other part 'MS essentially stuck its big nose into an industry' doesn't make sense. Sony did the same thing back in the 90's since then the industry has needed a new company to come in. If their was no Xbox... Sony's PS3 would still cost £500 and have limited online gaming etc... The xbox has woken sony into new thinking. Sony must now think of what USA, European gamers needs instead of just japanese. |
You see, canch really hit some good points here. Sony also had absolutely no business getting involved in gaming either when it did, so why not the same analytical judgment against them? The writer part of the Playstation generation that thinks the gaming world began with them?
| madkiller said: News flash for everyone...a lot of N64 games cost $70 to $80, and even more sometimes. Killer Instinct Gold cost $85 when it was released. Also, original, I repeat, original NES games over 20 years ago cost $50. I paid $50 for MLB baseball on the NES in 1987... |
Thanks, madkiller. I can list out a number of games from the 16-bit generation that cost more than $60. 8 meg catridges were a big deal and they made us pay for it. Games like Street Fighter II were $75 and we paid it because the game was the Halo of its time. There were even games like Phantasy Star 4 and Virtua Racing that cost $100!!! But then came CD's and games finally got down to $40-50 new. But, to be honest, considering the BUDGETS of games back then compared to now, we were REALLY getting ripped off by what they were charging. So the writer is also way off base with his comments about what games cost now and especially for blaming Microsoft for it.
