MS preys on Consumer Ignorance with Xbox 360/One

[sales2099]

forevercloud3000 said:

sales2099 said:

In the end you pick a console that appeals to your own personal tastes the best. 360 excelled in XBLA, online (regardless of paywall), and its flagship exclusives. It may shock you but many felt it appealed to their interests more then a PS3. There is no blatant winner, it depends on the person.

I at least understand the concept of subjectivity where I see many like you that are convinced that the other options are just wrong.

What you want to be when making a decision about such things is "Objective"

not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased: anobjective opinion.

You can have an opinion and still be objective. I don't just harbor some ill will towards a company I never worked for for some ethereal reason. I weigh pros and cons of everything and came to a conclusion. I am told I am a bit overly logical in this sense. 2 is always gong to be greater than 1, not I "feel" that 2 is.  logically, one is just so much better for the average person's money. 

There are more opinion based questions to be asked, such as what games/series a person likes, what features you are looking for, etc.Still, PS3 had more 70+ range titles and with far more acclaim, PSN is actually quite competent in comparison to Live, its silly media bias that has so many beleiving one is vastly superior. Once people figure out that the new Dashboard was a green version of the PS3's XMB just in the opposite direction, Or how bad connection has less to do with the console and more to do with your area, or how PS3 was only missing 2 features Xbox360 had(gamertag change, cross game chat) , mindshare could change. Yet excluding these claims, which only make up about 1/3rd of the over all gaming experience pie, it only leans one way.

Its like when I am at work, and a person comes and asks to get ItemX, and I say "hey, itemX costs you $20 but for the same price you can get itemXY which comes with itemX for just $20s as well". Then the customer just shrugs me off. "No, I'll just stick to itemX, I'm just used to it".

This type of thing confounds me to no end. How can you NOT choose the second option when its obviously the superior one? In general, I think its the fear of wanting to admit you made a poor decision or not being properly informed that creates this. The MS situation is a lot more complex of course but its pretty similar. People who don't want to think about the disparity become immediately dismissive of this logic argument and just yell they want to be left alone in their bubble.

See that's it; being utterly convinced that your opinion is right and everything else is wrong. Not taking into account peoples tastes and what they want from a console.

Again, 360 excelled at XBLA, its flagship exclusives, and Xbox Live (playing online, community features). To a lesser extent better multiplats and multiplats not on PS3 for those that aren't PC gamers. That was what people wanted and that is why 360 did as well as it did. If anyone is in a bubble it is you, thinking no other opinion can be right.