MS preys on Consumer Ignorance with Xbox 360/One

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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

sales2099 said:

Well if X1 got away with DRM then PS4 would have won by even bigger margins then now. In the end consumers decide where the market goes. But issues like release parity are really not game changer polocies. They really aren't.

There is a difference between responding to consumer demands and "getting away with it". The latter suggests that the penalties were either miniscule or non-existant. If XB1 got away with DRM, the Sony would follow suit to compete, and possibly even Nintendo. Just like Sony added a fee for Multiplayer because XB has been doing it for the past decade.

So you believe that Sony is charging for MP like MS does for live because MS is doing it.  This is a very narrow view of why Sony is charging for MP.  Sony is charging for MP because they understood like MS that its the single most direct course to have consumers pay for a service.  

There is a lot of double standards in your statements.  You seem to easily dismiss when Sony does something anti-consumer and then push the blame to their competitor.  Thats like my Son sees his friend hit someone and he goes and does the same thing.  So how many other policies that are anti-consumer that Sony does that you are willing to pass the buck to their competitor for either doing it first or just doing it.