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Darth Tigris on 24 December 2010
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psrock said:
Darth Tigris said:
Shura said:

Awesome 360, biggest week in its 5th year, congrats, algo, right now has sold twice the original xbox lifetime sales in the same time (more or less) wich is really great for a console doomed since its launch. Looks like microsoft have been great this year with its moves.

Next week will be interesting, i love november and dicember.


Its something that people don't want to talk about at all any more, but remember all of the Dreamcast 2 talk?  Remember the RRoD stigma?  Or how about the snub for MGS4 and initial ones for Tekken, DMC and FFXIII.  The CONSTANT demeaning from Sony execs prior to and after the PS3 launch (even to this very day).

Or how about how analyst, Sony execs, many gaming and non-gaming journalist and innumerable legions of gamers all basically felt that it was a lame duck console at launch and was going to be blown out of the waters by the PS3.  Sony had sold over 100 million consoles for the last two generations, dominance in every region on earth.  The previous gen had seen simply the potential of the PS2 CRUSH the Dreamcast and force Sega out of the console race.  They were the 100 lb gorilla that declared that the next generation of gaming doesn't start until they arrive.

Yet ..... here were are ... 2010.  5 years after launching.  The Xbox 360, with no price cut for over 2 years, has its single best sales week ever.  And over 4 of those five years, to this 100 lb. gorilla, it has only given up 1.3 million of its one year lead.

Remember your HISTORY, fellow gamers.  The Xbox 360 has done the improbable and deserves recognition and acclaim.

And don't even get me started on the story of the Wii ...


What?

Dude, the Wii is the story, it was the console people laughed at. The 360 is doing great, but only in second because the PS3  is doing bad compared to the PS2.

The 360 did not just get there this year, it had a redesign, Kinect, Halo, the biggest game on the planet all this fall.

Is it really THAT hard to give the 360 a compliment that is not backhanded?  Do you (and others) even realize when you do it?