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fatslob-:O on 28 March 2014
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TheBlackNaruto said:

So basically what you are saying is consumers determine what is afforadable/accesible to them. And that if they had the choice to get that Bugatti or Lamb they would but they can't because the it is not feasble for the average consumer. Hence a "solution" came that they can get another product that was "ideal" for them. Not of a higher quality than the fore mentioned products but "ideal" and "afforadable". Not saying that theya renot quality products because they indeed are. They are just not as high quality as other products which is fine.

@Bold But how do you know that their not as high quality if not even higher than the high end products ? An ideal product is the best one as defined by the MARKET! There would be no guarantee that they would all buy lamborghini's even if all the customers would have a lot of money. What customers want the most is a solution to their issues! 

Your last example basically states the same thing that while the PC steamboxes are of higher quality they are also not the most affordable when compared to consoles nor as easy to adapt to. Hence the reason the consoles sale more, still doesn't take away from the fact that the PC expereince is of higher quality though. See you are trying to make the statement that more sales equals the best quality. So then if that were the case what would be the need of these other more expensive products seeing as teh average person can't afford them? Why to we need Red Lobster, Longhorn, Lonestar, 54th, Sybergs etc and other resturants if they are not of a higher value than say McDs or Taco Bell? I mean both Taco Bell and McDs sell tons more so why the need of these more expensive less quality places?

Some steamboxes are affordable but what really kills it is that valve aren't controlling the prices of some OEMs inflating them. PC gaming wasn't ALWAYS higher quality than it is now! In fact if it were before the new millenium I would argue that consoles were a higher quality experience than PCs and it showed in SALES. A customers experience on their platform is very important feedback and people agreed that the games on consoles were better which factored into their quality. Hence why people kept saying that PC gaming was dying in the past but all of it stopped in the middle of last generation when PC gaming started getting higher quality releases from consoles. Just because their are businesses at the high end does not mean that they don't get to exist. Some businesses are meant for a certain segment of the market but overall it doesn't disregard the fact that the market sees a higher value in some fast food restraurants than others. 

Albeit I COMPLETELY understand where you are coming from and what you are saying...a college professor of mine had us divide into teams and do this same exact debate(you would have been awesome for the other side lol) and we came to the conclusion that while both views are not wrong they are also not 100% correct because there are too many different factors to make one or the other absolute! But I do love talking about this though because it is always good to see the different views!

Was the other side underwhelming or what ? It's always good to see things from a different perspective and I think you got the view of some engineering student LOL.