Is third time lucky going to work for Microsoft?

[pearljammer]

starcraft said:

pearljammer said:

starcraft said:

 

What happened was exactly what Sony said would happen!!! Five million fools bought in when the price was $600 and the console had no games.

I've seen you mention this several times. Am I such a fool simply because I wanted a HD movie player as well as a next-gen console which I knew I would eventually take advantage of game-wise? I had a feeling blu-ray would win, so that was a huge plus, I eventually wanted FFXIII, so it'd have been silly to purchase a 360 on a relatively limited budget with accordance to my wants.

 

On topic: MS has obviously made HUGE inroads in NA and, to a lesser extent, the EU. I'm not sure if they ever will make the same sort of gains in Japan as they have elsewhere. I think you are right though, it certainly is possible that MS can win next gen withough Japan, I just don't think that it is probable.

Are you going to tell me in all honesty that on a "limited" budget you bought a PS3 as a Blu-Ray player because you had a "feeling" the format would win?

I'll want Versus when it comes out in 2009/10, but I didn't buy a PS3 at twice what it will cost in 2009, in 2006. Sony had no games in 2006 and for most of 2007, but 5 million people bought the console at full price in that period, just like Sony said they would.

Sony may be arrogant, but they are often right.

 

 Yes, I am. First of all, I said ''relatively" limited budget. It didn't break me. I was at student at the time, I was working part time, so I had a bit of extra cash to spend. **and to be fair, I sold my launch PS3 on ebay ( shamelessly for $1200 =) ), only to buy a $600 one in Feb '07.

As I said, I wanted SOME next gen gaming, wanted an HD movie player, eventually wanted FFXIII and had little interest in what the 360 offered at the time (sure if blue dragon/lost odyssey were out at the time, I may have went the other way). So this makes me a fool? As well as 5 million other people? Surely some, if not many, of them are fools. But to make such a blanket statement as you have and continue to stand by, generalizing 5 million people without knowing their jusifications for their purchases, calling them names (fools) and then complain in other threads where people call you names, asking for them to be banned (which I beleive you were in the right) is nothing less than being hypocritical, is it not?

I apologize if I come off as a jackass here, I just don't appreciate being generalized nor, like you, being needlessly called names.