Xbox One's fast change of policies.

[fauzman]

Goatseye said:

fauzman said:

Goatseye said:

You have to be mentally unstable to trust a corporation that is trying to make money. But I like MS the most out of 3 because they're not scared of making choices and games that I like.
They're natural leaders and not "Mr me too".

I'm very excited for Illumiroom, the goggles thing and to see how Kinect 2.0 will fare this time. And Killer Instinct.

Lol. Kinda ironic considering they have done a full reversal and are following the pack of Nintendo and Sony in a lot of ways. 

OT - its all about reputation and MS generally seems to have a much lower one than either Nintendo or Sony. Microsoft's reputation was very high when they started this gen and  has gone down steadily ever since. Sony had a horrible start but its efforts to remedy its slow start means it has gained a lot of kudos and loyal fans since. Sony seem not to have considered drm from day one and have stated so and I for one totally believe them. Sony seem a bit more aware of regional issues and more considering of the fact that not everyone everywhere will have good broadband so I dontbelieve they considered any sort of logging-in-regularly drm. MS, imo, seems to focus on the US to an unhealthy amount and I can see them not considering the effect outside the US.

Put simply if Sony and MS said the same thing, I would believe Sony but look at MS as if they were putting one over on me.

You mean like Sony is following 360? Kinecteye, paid subscription etc... Sony didn't do anything, if MS did something was to reverse it's policies to the existing ones. You could argue that the Kinect is following the Eye Toy. Still either way this is irrelevant - I was commenting specifically regarding their reversals and them going from being very different from the ps4, to now being verysimilar to the ps4.

MS's reputation is just lower to you folks that don't do business  with them. That's your job, to nag at everything they do although you don't buy from them. Thats just a stupid excuse - we dont do business with themso we dont like them? I dont have a single Apple product but still prefer them to MS. MS is perceived a certain way and while no doubt it will be difficult for them to change this image, they have the money and the pr ability to do this should they want to. 

Sony didn't give a damn about your choices, they left the DRM to 3rd parties and never advocated for their peasants. But you believe in a money making giant corporation, there's nothing I can do about that. Disagree. They listened to how people would react and decided to stick with the current system. And everyone's happy with that. Yep Sony are a money making corporation but they make a much better job of listening to their consumers. And so far they have generally not disproved my trust in them.  

Unhealthy amount of attention from MS in US(and UK). Well, I would've done the same to tell you the thruth. Those are the two countries that treat them for what they are(business company) instead of most of the countries that treat them like American imperial flagship. I know a lot of people in Europe don't buy Xbox because it's "Amurican". Japan, about the same. In 2008,2009 MS pumped the most JRPG out of 3 but didn't move a niquel in that area. You are likely correct about MS in Japan. I would disagree with XB in Europe - the XB didnt do as great there because people over the prev. 3 gens have generally been satisfied with the PS consoles AND because the XB didnt have many games (other than Forza) that catered to them. You are right about focusing on key markets but Sony simply seem to be better at including various regions/countries with their  consoles.

X1 is the most ambitious console out of the 3 and it makes sense for MS as they didn't just want to upgrade their graphics card(like the competition). Ambitious yes, smart clearly not. 

I wasnt really trying to get in a pissing contest, simply pointing out that to me and no doubt to the majority of people, the brand sony gives is (or at least seems to be) is much much better than brand MS. And everything I have seen so far over the years seems to convince me of this - you only have to look at the multiplayer policies for both the XBO and ps4. One puts nearly all apps behind a paywall, the otherhas free games with the MP. Says a lot to me.