| mochachino said: I think most people were still sore about being exploited on 360 and treated like a second class consumers after Xbox started chasing after that Wii casual money at the expense of the core and early adopters...who were already pissed from the RROD/dvd drive issues, and 13.6 gig HD, and ridiculously overpriced updgrade options...and no HDMI or WiFi. The list goes on. |
That certainly describes me. I rushed out to by a 360, awesome games at the start. Yet then it broke, I bought a ps3, 360 broke again, cancelled live and I started playing multiplatform games on ps3. Why pay for online on a console that's a ticking timebomb. I did get a new 360 under warrenty, but still no wifi and a 20gb hdd. Meanwhile the new exclusives dried up, 360 without gold made you feel more and more like a third class custumor with each UI update. (I could not even see or access the HD screenshots I made in Forza Horizon...) Plus I was not interested in Kinect.
Meanwhile I had signed up for ps+ which made the decision to buy ps4 first even easier. Well WiiU first, it was out a year earlier. Buying 2 consoles in the same year is a bit much. If XBox One had come out a year later I would probably have bought it day 1 as well on hype. With all the changes going on I decided to wait and now I still don't have one as I have too much of a backlog on ps4 already. Going head to head cost XBox my sale and currently I rather wait for a slim revision at max $300 with a game. 1Tb Forza 6 bundle is $450 here, back to matching ps4 in price... (except newer game and 1tb instead of 500gb)
MS gambled that people would not give up their live acount and collected achievements and stick with them no matter what. They gambled wrong.
