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S.T.A.G.E. on 12 August 2013
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Machiavellian said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
HipHopGodd said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:


When Microsoft sees that Sony gives their fans a headset instead of making them buy it as yet another tacked on purchase, they decide to give them a very nice looking headset for free. A much better headset than Sony, I might add. Without the influence of Sony do you know how many tacked on purchases MS would've forced upon their gamers? 

To be honest, I'm probably as big a Sony fan as you are. But you give them far too much credit. 


They never had a free headset slated in the past. This is my point. Sony had a shitty headset but at least they gave something back. 

It’s interesting how people see things.  I see the headset Sony is putting within the PS4 as a piece of garbage.  It looks cheap and it probably is very cheap for them to make and put into the console.  When I look at the X1 headset, it actually looks like a headset.  It looks like MS spent some money and time designing it.  If you go by MS, they have improved the quality of the sound sent and received to the headset and it also appears they are taking this piece of equipment serious.

I can understand why MS did not include the headset within the X1.  It doesn’t look like some crap put into the console to tick off a box.  They probably did spend money on it and are looking for a return.  I will say since MS started last gen with a headset, they pretty much set a tradition so the expectation would be that the X1 would also include a headset.  This is probably the main reason they decided to go ahead and eat the cost more than because Sony decided to include a 2 dollar headset with their console.

 

If MS is to blame for not including a headset with the X1 then I believe Sony should be given enough flack for including a crappy headset with their box just to tick off a list of features. 


Microsoft brought PC gaming over to console gaming (literally companies and customs outside of a keyboard and mouse). Sony wasnt about that at the time and yes it was considered a downside to their offerings with the PS3. Many people had to go out of their way to buy headsets and slowly but sureloy that community of headset owners is growing on PSN. It was a downside just as much as anything else like a lack of cross chat and other things. A lot of people have headsets now and better now than never. MS brought the concept over from a community where it was already thriving from online gaming, thus they knew better.