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A203D on 15 October 2010
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damndl0ser said:
A203D said:

I'm not some sort of trolling fanboy, but i would like to see MS outed from the console industry. i havent liked them for a long time, because of their Windows OS's and the expensive price points of all their products. Windows was a faulty OS way before the 360, people should've seen it coming imo. fair enough Sony and Nintendo are also buisnesses and they aim to make money as well, but they dont go too far, eg when the 360 came out you had to buy an expensive WiFi adapter, imo that should have been built in from the beginning. its these type of things they do which i think is desgined to exploit consumers. Sony and Nintendo seem like on some level they geniunly care about gaming, by supporting niche games and small projects, eg Ico, or Heavy Rain, etc. MS will keep releasing a new Halo every year because they know it will make them money. i dont think smaller studios would be able to survive if MS was the central console provider.


What a fracking joke.  Sony's products always cost more and are in the top 10% price wise, no matter if its a TV, MP3 player, Stereo System, Gaming Console, or ANYTHING THEY MAKE.  So this pretty much destroys your price point argument.  

You call having a gaming console twice the price of its competition not going to far?

Don't fool yourself none of these companies care about gaming.  They all have investors and all the investors care about is return on the dollar.  

 

On Topic, I would have to say I don't want to see Apple join the console war.  As I do not have enough spare spending money to purchase 4 consoles and games for each.  Hell, I can't afford the Iphone and its broadband package that you have to purchase with it, but I have it anyway.  Luckily my work pays for half of it.

Yeah, but this is one of the things i'm thinking about; it was in the ethos of Sony to release the PS3 as the best possible console it could be and sell it at a huge loss, they provided top notch reliable hardware by comparasion, they provided a lot of built in features at a loss, like blu ray, backward compatability, built in wifi, flash card readers, etc.

its in their ethos to do that. however does anyone really think that if Microsoft were not in a console war they wouldve extended warranty on faultly consoles, they didnt provide warranty for every RROD console anyway. they charge for online, they dont provided as many built in features.

my point is that because Microsoft and Apple are Amercian they have a different buisness ethos, and imo it seems to be that they care more about making money rather than quality a lot more than their competitiors. look at Windows or even GWRL in comparasion to Steam.

like you said about Apple, they cost way too much, and thats Exactly what Microsoft want imo, thats why i want them out, if they wernt in a console war and they had a monopoly on the industry like they want, they would do exactly what Apple are doing.