Borkachev on 26 January 2008
Microsoft Worse
Poor quality design / control allowing RROD
Poor quality design / control allowing RROD
If you consider that the console's quality was sacrificed in order to keep the price down and rush it out ahead of the competition, I think this was actually a very smart move. Microsoft has proven, just as Sony did last generation, that game consumers don't care about product quality. They care about price, marketing, and games. If you need to make sacrifices to secure these things, product quality should be the first thing to go.
Is there any doubt that if Sony had put in a crap power supply and a faulty motherboard in order to sell the PS3 for $399/499 at launch they would be in a better position now?
