Probably a mix of everything said... Then again most software company launch asap and patch after.... I think what we clearly saw last Gen and will probably occur this Gen again is that MS is a software company first and no matter what people say they are rather good at it (software got many updates and improvement) and Sony is a hardware company and they are rather good at it..(redesign of the console and improvements on cost)... Now on this launch MS had two issues to deal with make sure the RRoD fiasco wouldn't happen again and then they got to deal with the 180... Making it hard for them to scramble on the finalization of their product... But thing are only gonna get better from now on especially with their software convergence coming around quite nicely...
I think the start of the Gen was a little bumpy and we are still seeing some aftereffects of it but now they are on schedule with where they want to go and what they want to do... We'll see but this Gen all be more interesting than the last one imo...
