In defense of Microsoft: A response to DMeisterJ

[bbsin]

Final-Fan said:

 

He's saying that the PlayStation brand is stronger than the Xbox brand, but if you look ONLY at the PS3 vs. 360 (excluding both the PS2 and PSP) then they are about equal in street cred.

I admit it's kind of unfair to compare the 360 to the whole PlayStation family SDF-style, but I have to say that the PSP is in fact this gen and a good asset for Sony's brand strength, which also helps the PS3; and the PS2 still casts a huge shadow. It may be unfair to MS but ignoring all that just because MS will look bad* if you don't ignore it is just foolish.

*Or more accurately, because Slimebeast's argument will be destroyed if he doesn't.

Other than that, a good post exposing some interesting fallacies, self-contradiction, etc.

He really only brought up the PS3 = PS brand after his legs were cut and realized that the PSbrand is far more popular than the Xbox brand. Other than that, the whole "street cred" argument shouldn't be based on the newest console out vs the other newest console out, it should be based on the timeframe and what consoles or systems are still selling in that timeframe. It just happens to be that the PSP, PS2 and PS3 are selling right now, and the brand name happens to play a large part of it. Either way his arguments are mostly based on baseless assumptions and selective fanboy memories, disregard it.