Michael Pachter chooses the Xbox to win the next generation

[thismeintiel]

walsufnir said:

thismeintiel said:
What I don't get is this downplaying of the impact on 360 sales from the 1+ year head start and the FREAKING $200 PRICE DIFFERENCE FOR THE FIRST FEW YEARS. And at the same time, acting like the NeXbox is going to perform similarly in EU and Japan without those HUGE advantages. 

Perhaps because repeating this *opinion* over and over again doesn't make it true. The x360 launch and first years were also horrible. The thing was as loud as a plane starting, it had massive bad press due to RROD in all media and the user-reception in forums was also bad. Why are you all ignoring this?

Fortunately for MS, RROD didn't have that harmful of an affect on sales.  Many MS fans, as well as mainstream gamers , decided to just stick with the 360 because they had games for it and/or their friends had one.  They used this and the PS3's price to justify either buying a new 360 or sending it to MS.

And if you think being loud and having some people on random forums not like it is the same as being 1+ year late AND $200 more, you're only fooling yourself.