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KillerMan on 30 December 2010
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jarrod said:
KillerMan said:
jarrod said:

I actually agree with you Puggs, passing NES in 2011 and (if handled right) GBA eventually seems really doable for 360.  Microsoft's done a fantastic job this gen imo.


Though Sony completely screwing up PS3 launch also helped greatly. Still of course they also have done great job.

To be fair, if 360 hadn't existed, PS3 would be in an even worse position now.  PS3 really did ride 360's coattails and get a ton of ports upfront, and the sustained "HD platform" ensured software support kept coming in the face of Wiimageddon.  If 360 wasn't around, how much 3rd party support do you think PS3 would be seeing today?

Why wouldn't 360 exist? It's just that if Sony would have handled PS3 launch better we would have pretty different sales to look at. Of course this also means that PS3 would be very different machine that it's today (blu-ray drive out ,less power etc). $299-349 launch price and we could have seen real battle between Wii and PS3 with Wii probably still winning but with smaller margin. X360 would have still sold a lot better than original xbox but less than it is now going to sell.