| AndreRichards said: All this talk about being too expensive or no killer gamers or being underpowered or blah blah... I'm surprised so many people are missing the elephant in the room when it comes to XBox. This is what happens when a company damages their brand with constant and pricey hardware problems coupled with a weak response. The 360 and its endless RRoDs has damaged the XBox brand, maybe irreparably so. I think I'm not alone in not wanting any more Microsoft consoles. They fail. They cost too much to repair. The customer service from MS is god-awful. You end up having to buy another one or face not being able to play all those expensive games. It sucks. Personally, I've sworn off MS for games. It's Sony and Nintendo from now on, and I know lots of others who feel the same. |
Umm, the whole "RROD" thing is ancient history to most gamers... M$ had its most successful years saleswise with the 360 AFTER the whole RROD fiasco, so the whole "it damaged M$'s brand" argument doesn't fly today. They gave everyone who had an older model console a 3 year warranty extension and fixed disc-drive and general failure issues free of charge when under warranty. I had my 360 RROD on me back in 2008... couple weeks later I received a new one and I haven't had a single problem since. So much for the whole "costing too much to repair" argument and customer service being lousy... especially since the console was $100-$200 cheaper than PS3 throughout the last generation to begin with, and the PS3 was not without its own h/w issues, though certainly not on the scale of RROD.
No, the big elephant in the room here is the fact that if M$ didn't shoot themselves in the foot by proving the DRM / always on 24/7 rumors true and forcing Kinect 2.0 on everyone which made the console more expensive than PS4, we wouldn't be having this discussion right now because the PS4 wouldn't have the edge it does due to the price and DRM factors.
There would have been no pre-E3 controversy, M$ would have had their show and announced a price of $399, and then Sony would have followed with a "me-to" press conference with the only other noteworty announcements being that online gaming on PSN would now be behind a paywall on PS4, and more previously Sony-exclusive main titles of 3rd party franchises like MGS and Kingdom Hearts were going multiplatform.
On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.
