| Darc Requiem said: I say this. I can't take anyone that sites MS's hardware issues with the 360 as reason to go to Sony seriously. Sony has the worst track record when it comes to hardware reliability. What's worse than that is their response to the issues. Sony's response to hardware issues is to bury their heads in the sand and deny that their is a problem. The reason to pick Sony would be software. Sony has numerous high quality first party IPs that you can't get anywhere else. That is an undeniable fact. Picking Sony for hardware reliability is the epitome of an oxymoron. |
Umm... MS denied the issue for the first 1.5 years before extending the warranty ("Ya know, things break!"). Even then, they just sent half working consoles that would break down very quickly as replacements. They did a good job getting the press to get gamers to think they are the good guys even though they should have sent everyone redesigned fully working consoles. Eventually, gamers will get tired of sending it back and will end up just buying an arcade unit and putting a drive on it and Voila - a new hardware unit sold.
Now I'm not saying that Sony's reliability track record is much better, but MS is hardly the angels that people want to believe they are in the way they handled everything. In reliability, Nintendo is the only one I do trust.
Ditching the fanbase mid generation that is not in lock step with Halo, Gears, Forza, Fable, and Kinect is the reason I won't be getting the next Xbox. I spent alot of money on a console that I thought would have a jRPG future when LO and ToV were released just to be kicked to the curb. I even said the Xbox 360 was my favorite console a few years ago.
Next generation (this generation with Wii U), it's Sony and Nintendo for me. And the fact that the rumors are getting stronger about always online and no used / borrowed games reinforces my position.
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY." --Hermann Goering, leading Nazi party member, at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Conservatives: Pushing for a small enough government to be a guest in your living room, or even better - your uterus.
