Why is Microsoft such a hated company around here?

[disolitude]

MontanaHatchet said:

disolitude said:

dharh said:

Personally im a little jaded against MS because of their track record. The original XBOX was a disaster as far as im concerned. And the ~50% failure rate of the X360 still sticks in my mind. I cannot shake the feeling that im going to turn on my X360 someday only to see RROD. Im sorry but even if MS bends over backwards with extending warranties and no cost repairs it still sucks monkey nuts to have to ship my X360 if it ever does fail.

Despite that though, I did buy an X360.

How was xbox 1 a disaster? System was rock solid. It had better support than Gamecube. It continued with online play where dreamcast left off and most importantly of all, it was MS's first shot at a console...

It was really big and ugly looking. It's first few years weren't that great, mostly fueled by Halo. Having better support than the Gamecube means very little. I give it credit for online, but being Microsoft's first console doesn't make it any more impressive. Hell, look at the first consoles of Nintendo and Sony. The NES and the Playstation. Enough said.

Well the looks thing is really streching it... the thing had a hard drive, was most powerful by far and built in network jack. It needed room for all components. Yeah the design wasn't really award winning but quite frankly...I don't care what console looks like, neither should you.

I honestly think that it could not have gone any better. The whole idea behind Xbox was to use directX and help provide easy PC to console ports. To do online connectivity and online network. Have great games and new experiences on a console. And to stop the runaway success of the Playstation brand.

The only disaster MS had with Xbox 1 was that they lost all those billions trying to compete with Sony who obviously could not be stopped...