Rainbird said:
Online performance is not Microsoft's only strength, and in fact, Microsoft are the ones who made it a must-have for consoles. That's one huge thing in favor of Microsoft and wanting to remove it is simply for the sake of cherry picking. 1. No, they wanted to be more visible for consumers, rather than just being for enterprise customers. VG247 ran a few pieces on how the Xbox came to be last year, you should read them. 2. Yes, clearly wanting your device on the market for as long as possible and making as much money from it as possible is something only Sony wants. 3. Huh? The 360? The 360 Slim? Which one are you referring to? I don't see any 360 model that looks like this:
4. DVD was the most sensible format at the time, which is why they chose it. I won't talk about HDDVD, as I have no idea what reasoning Microsoft had behind it, but the fact that Sony has had to allow installs to the harddrives of the PS3 tells you that bluray wasn't quite ready for primetime. 5. It's called being first to market, and like with #2, it's not something Sony started doing. 6. Seeing as how development costs started to skyrocket with this generation, wouldn't it be likely that developers also wanted to have their games on the 360? Especially seeing as how Microsoft went out of their way to make piece of hardware that was easy to develop for. I'm not saying Microsoft hasn't learned lessons from what Sony has been doing, but it all comes back to the sentence "Microsoft always ends up following Sony's lead" still being blatantly wrong. You won't accept online gaming as an area where Microsoft are leading, and you think Microsoft is following Sony in everything they do, which is clearly wrong. @ happydolphin It's a matter of principle, as S.T.A.G.E. is clearly trying to make Sony look superior to Microsoft by spreading misinformation. |
or this for that matter: 
I honestly don't see how Microsoft copied the PS2 with any of those designs...You're fighting a loosing battle, he'll just keep reciting some ridiculous points, honestly, I read his rebukal that I've removed from the quote box, and I just facepalmed myself. Approaches that would make GOOD business sense are now Sony's and the best as well as one of the first methods that has allowed us to game online from our home consoles is useless. It's obvious which way he's trying to spin the argument, kudos on the responses from you, 'least they're logical.
Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.
