Aielyn said:
You're clearly not understanding. Nothing in what MS actually said even implies any inaccuracy regarding what Orth implied about MS's next console. What they're saying is "we don't consider people living in backwater areas to be idiots who need to move". It's all very PR-speak, making it sound like they're rejecting what he said when they're actually rejecting only the anti-consumer attitude of how he said it. So when I summarise their response, I put it exactly as I did - "Adam Orth's comments on Twitter were inappropriate, and we have no comment on the actual content of the twitter comments". They have nothing to say about his actual point, they only take issue with the attitude with which he said it, and the fact that his attitude makes MS look bad. Remember, "the actual content" of the twitter comments wasn't "don't live in backwater areas", but rather "always online is a good thing, and shouldn't be denigrated any more than a vacuum cleaner always needing power". In PR, it's always what they *don't* say that is key. The failure to actually say anything about the idea of always-online consoles, when that's what most people are reacting to (not the poor way in which Adam Orth promoted it), is a much louder statement than anything they actually did say. |
Even if this twitter thing did not get out of hand, MS would not have made a comment on it but instead either fired Orth or put him under a media blackout to keep his mouth shut. It would not matter if his statements were truth or opinion. The only reason you even have an apology is that Orth made rude comments to people so it required a response.
You still keep missing the point that MS does not make any statements on something that does not exist and they will not make a statement until they make a reveal. Trying to read between the lines is just creating your own opinion of what said but in reality it doesn't get any deeper than the Nextbox doesn't exist until MS says it does.
