| Chris Hu said:
Will Smith hiatus lasted three years. Robert Downy Jr.'s hiatious was forced because of drug problems. If you look at Josh Brolin's filmography you can't notice any big hiatus he has been working steadily since the Goonies in 1985 the only year he wasn't in anything was 1993,1998 and 2011 (2011 looks like a personal break since he was pretty busy in 2010) he himself has said many times their where times when he was struggling to find work. Which is a shame because he is a excellent actor (execpt for Jonah Hex) and the people that didn't hire him lost out. With a long hiatus MS would have upgraded the hardware no doubt look what they did with the slim they added wifi and a better HDD. Sony actually removed feature from the PS3 slim despite it being a lot cheaper to manufacture. Stocking up parts for the most part is not a good idea because over time parts usually get cheaper to make. Plus in electronics parts get better over time due to die shrink. Only plus for lauching a year later would have been that it would have been more reliable they system would have probably launched with 65nm chips instead of 90nm. On the negative side the hiatus would have hurt the X-Box brand overall and the system would have been more expensive due to an upgrade in the hardware and added features (most likely would have launched wifi and definetly would have launched with HDMI port). |
You're not addressing the more fundamental points though. Point 1 especially.
1) It's not because they are QA'ing the system a year extra that they need to upgrade. What events in the past pre-launch lead you to conclude the contrary? Also, I'm not so sure about my stocking up argument so let's just leave it aside for now.
2) As for my point on hiatuses being possibly good; I can't find an example on hand ATM, but never is a big word, that's all I'm gonna say.
3) You don't consider the fact that MS is still supporting the original xbox in said hypothetical scenario. I'm assuming you're not considering it because you're still calling this a "hiatus", which can bundle any type of hiatus of any type of service with any undetermined length. I gave you a specific scenario yet I don't see you addressing it in its specificity.
