JoeFlex said:
JWeinCom said:
I think the important thing is the policies are gone. Clearly this is not what they desired, but they realized that the market would not buy what they were selling, and they changed it. I don't really need our desires to be aligned, I need them to cater to my desires if they want my money, and they seem to be doing that. I'm not looking for a soulmate here, I'm looking for a game console. Microsoft's "desires" are quite irrelevant to me so long as they make good games and don't put unwanted restrictions on them |
That's one way too look at it, and while I disagree with you, I respect your opinion. Those polices could be short term - a bandaid - in the sense that they were only done to please people in the short run before reverting to their original agenda. And their desires are not irrelevant, otherwise people would not have made such a fuss over their policies.
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part of their clarifaction later in the day said they would not be going back on the policies for the rest of the gen. Makes sense, you can't really change a product like that once it is on the market.
That being said, I don't think Microsoft even knew what they desired. Their executives were out their promoting this thing half heartedly and aimlessly. They never even came close to making a case for it. Obviously there was a lot of inner turmoil going on within the company as their messaging was all over the place. The problem isn't that Microsoft had misaligned desires, it is that Microsoft didn't even know what their desires were.
Perhaps, now, Microsoft can take a step back and re-calibrate. Figure out what kind of product they actually want the x1 to be and get the thing back on track.
