| Domicinator said: I know a girl who coaches the debate team at a high school. Two big things she teaches them are that if you call your opponent a name or say the word "technically", you have already lost the debate. I kind of think that's the case sometimes with the 360 and people constantly bringing up the RRoD. We all know that the RRoD has been a problem. Falcon models seem to have greatly reduced its frequency, and further revisions surely will. It seems that when PS3 fanboys feel backed into a corner or get all butthurt about something, they bring up the RRoD, which didn't really seem to hurt the 360's sales. Love MS or hate them, there's one thing they've been right about all along: Software sells systems. If you don't have the software, your system won't sell. PS3 hasn't had the software. 360 has. The numbers reflect that. The impact of BluRay has been WAY overestimated by some because all media (movies, music, TV, etc.) is making a big shift toward digital distribution. We are not far from a world free of physical media to hold our data, and when movies finally catch up, it won't matter what kind of player you have. I think people already realize that. For example, I can get my HD movies from my OnDemand service. I haven't rented a movie from Blockbuster in literally years, and I'm not big on obtaining a huge movie collection, so what do I care about having a disc? As long as the movie is in HD and I can view it without having to go into the store or send for it through Netflix, I will watch it. It seems that many share my point of view, which is why BluRay isn't the smash hit it was thought to be. The HD format wars were very overhyped. |
technically i think you look funny. ;)
also, movies and tv shows aren't making a huge leap into digital wholly for a long time to come. not everyone lives in a big city, not even close. so the speeds to download movies and tv shows will not reach the vast majority of the population for a long time. and just because you are not a movie buff doesn't mean there aren't plenty of people out there who are. I am one of them, I am just unfortuately poor right now so I don't have a blu ray player and blu ray movies, but I still have a boat load of normal movies as do other people. the reason blu ray "isn't a smash hit" isn't because the hd format wars were over hyped, it was because there were two rival formats and people didn't want to buy a player for a couple hundred dollars and lots of movies and risc getting burned if they chose the wrong side. the price of hdtv's are coming down, the price of hd players are coming down, so more and more will sell.
as for 360 having more software, it was out a year longer, of course it will have more software, and the fact that the ps3 has been outselling it, by any amount, with a higher price tag and fighting the image of "no software" should make microsoft think real hard about what the hell is going on.
I guess I had better add this to keep the fanboy flames off of me a little bit, check my games list, I do not own a 360 or a ps3, I own a wii.
