| Dr.Henry_Killinger said: [...] If you want media features in a console, XB1 has hdmi in. However, the paywall is absolutely inane and archaic because casuals who would be using the X1 for media would use their smart tv features over their x1 features because they don't play video games so they have no need to pay for multiplayer in order to use YouTube. PS4 is superior in technical prowess between consoles is a factual statement. X1 is superior with regards to media features disregarding the paywall, which detracts from this due to idiotic policies. Paying for YouTube in 2014 is pretty stupid. |
Yes, "general superiority" is very debatable and context-sensitive.
Performance superiority is measurable, OTOH, but how it applies to gaming, multimedia or whatever else superiority is again context-sensitive, and it also depends on the users' tastes, although we can indirectly measure its average from sales.
Paywall policy is idiotic, inane and archaic, but consistent with the elder and most old-style part of MS management, that has constantly tried to impose pay for use and pay for everything also on PC for years (everything essential, MS is happy to give away some gadgets, even a lot of them, as long as users are forced to pay it for essential programs and features). Let's just hope that MS youngest managers, or those that have worked for it or for companies strongly tied to MS for less years, and that so don't need to feel protected by MS double monopoly on PC, start a new trend. Also because a huge market is growing outside, where Windows and Office are totally optional, and its devices could eventually replace PCs in a measure sufficient to marginalize classic x86 PC market and rendering MS domination on it less relevant, so that MS would still remain rich and profitable, but less powerful.
About this thread: I think it's legit as long as it mocks not simply any user that made wrong predictions, but those that were arrogant doing it, patronising those that had different opinions, and demanding their opinion, backed or not by facts (I remember some that I won't name went sometimes as far as downplaying those not agreeing with them using as facts little else than their own self-proclaimed competence in economics and the latter ignorance about it), be considered absolute truth.
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