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Aeolus451 on 20 January 2015
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McDonaldsGuy said:
Aeolus451 said:
I like that MS brings competition to table in the video game market. With it, comes better deals, prices, better games overall but I wouldn't buy any xbox product. They are a great competitor and bring out the best in sony & nintendo. I want MS to do well enough to stay in the video game market but never dominate it where they could dictate anything. MS has the most anti-consumer policies and they keep trying to force them on us when they aren't even the leading brand in video games.


True but that's for all companies.

When Nintendo was the leader:

- They didn't want to make another console (the only reason they made the SNES was cause of the Genesis/Mega Drive, otherwise they would have probably just sold the NES til the mid-90s)

- They treated third parties like crap. They were even abusive to them. That's why so many flocked to Sony and considered them a godsend

- They were also arrogant, and instead of CD storage for the N64 they used cartridges

When Sony was the leader:

- $599

That's all that really needs to be said (though I could go on and on about them during the early PS3 years). Microsoft did have anti-consumer policies but they changed those. Sony kept to their $599 price tag and their arrogance though until 2009 when they finally rebranded the PS3.

I can't speak for nintendo on that stuff. I would have to look up a lot of stuff to find out. I know that they are incredibly stubborn overall and make weird controllers that only nintendo fans could love.

I wouldn't go so far as to say sony was arrogant but they overestimated how much gamers would spend on a console that was backwards compatible. I believe that $500 to 600 is too much to ask for a console in any gen. At that price point, you might as well just get a gaming pc. MS made that mistake with the xbone/kinect.