| Raistline said: Here is my little anecdote. My brother and I have always been gamers since the first time we played a PC game and later got the original Nintendo Entertainment System. We have always enjoyed the same types of games, same consoles and so on. We were both huge fans of Sony consoles and PC gaming. This all changed when our preferences split during the PS3/Xbox360 era of gaming. I stayed a serious PC gamer who enjoyed the PS3 exclusives while he shifted entirely to Xbox360 and practically shunned the PC and his Playstation heritage. Side note: he had gone through 5 Xbox360's while my OG 60GB PS3 is still kicking strong, I always use this argument with him ad when talking about the superior PS3, we are natural rivals I am not a fanboy, just a fan. I was looking at the sales figures and noting how again how Xbox Ones are available pretty much everywhere under the sun and even under some rocks now and this made me think of my poor brother. He hosted Thanksgiving this year at his house and of course had to show off his brand new Xbox One and how cool it was to use Voice Commands through Kinnect (which did not work well). Then he bragged about how he had a cool DayOne edition and then pointed over to a second Xbox One that he purchase to sell later for profit. He was oh so very gleeful at the prospect of his goldmine in a green box.
Well, my poor brother, he still has his goldmine in a green box sitting in the same corner collecting dust while plays his DayOne edition. Unless something changes in the market and Xbox Ones supply becomes extremely strained again, my poor brother will be stuck without his profits. Let's all give a moment of silence for his loss. |
On the bright side at the very least he's got an extra Blu-Ray player. It also just occured to me it's a shame that we can't hook up consoles together like we can video cards haha. I could genuinely see people having multiple console setups of the same kind if they could get a performance benefit by linking them.
