Chris Hu said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Chris Hu said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Chris Hu said:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:
I don't want to hate here, but i will.
As we all know the 360 fail rate was due to the fact that Microsoft rushed it to the market, in order to make it available before the PS3.
But let me ask you, isn't that all MS is capable of ? Monopolizing the market ! They always win when they play alone and they always strive to undermine everyone else, no matter how sneaky the tactic, in order to be the only one in the market. MS fears competition.
They of course had for a big part, the press* and the, let me put it kindly, somewhat gullible US market on their side.
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Wrong the 360 was rushed into the market because of a bad business deal with Nvidia. Nvidia screwed over Microsoft with the price of their GPU. Also Nvidia stoped production of the Xbox's GPU in August 2005 which meant MS could not make any more new X-Box's after that.
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Read this. Microsoft intentionally sold faulty hardware to get the console to launch a year before Sony. They got the third parties behind them but they knowingly fucked the consumers. They knew if they segmented Sonys market by having all the same third party games they could weaken Sony and they did, but their risk didnt go unnoticed. I posted something earlier where the manufacturing places admitted to faulty hardware.
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/13974
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Did you even read what I said. If Nvidia and MS had a good business relationship the 360 would have been powered by a Nvidia GPU and it would have been %100 percent backwards compatible and the console itself would have launched at least six month later since the original X-box would have been manufactured beyond August of 2005. The original X-Box and the 360 would have co-existed for at least a year also. The faulty hardware of the first batch of 360's is largely due to the rush job MS had to do because of the bad business deal with Nvidia. They weren't afraid of Sony the only company that was afraid of Sony when it came to a console launch was Sega that's why the Dreamcast launched more then a year ahead of the PS2. Also that's not the first time Sega was afraid of the competion that's why the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive launch more then two years ahead of the SNES.
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Read this article. You're not listening. Microsoft KNEW ahead of time they had faulty hardware, it doesnt matter how many deals they made they had to launch the 360 a year ahead of Sony.
http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/05/xbox-360-defects-an-inside-history-of-microsofts-video-game-console-woes/
Read.
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Read what I said again Nvidia stopped manufacturing the GPU for the original 360 on August of 2005 of course they had to lauch the 360 early or they would have no consoles to sell for a long time. Again if the relationship with Nvidia would have been great the 360 would have launched at least six month later with a Nvidia GPU instead of a AMD/ATI GPU I guess you can't understand the words that are comming out of my mouth. Also Microsoft wasn't afraid of Sony last gen or the original X-Box wouldn't have launched a year and a half after the PS2 not even Nindento was afraid of Sony the Gamecube launched just two month before the original X-Box.
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No. Microsoft's main reason for joining the gaming industry was to cut into Sonys multimedia marketshare, much like they did with Apple. They want the living, room the games were always second to them but they knew in the beginning they had to get the third parties Sony was associated with on their side. They couldnt deal with shareholders telling them to back out of the gaming industry after losing so much on the original Xbox. They rushed the 360 to beat Sony to the next gen because Sony is established and they knew they couldnt beat Sony if they both launched head to head.
