In defense of Microsoft: A response to DMeisterJ

[Lord_Sothoth]

Slimebeast said:

6. So Sony messed up pricing and marketing? Yeah, I know too that Sony sucks. Yet no matter how you spin things MS and XBOX will most likely use the early gen advantage in next gen. Yes, the PS3 is catching up the X360 currently, but fact is that the X360 has sold 18.7 million consoles and the PS3 only 12.4 million. So what do you say to that? Epic fail for the PS3. My argument was about MS catching up generation for generation, and that's something no one can deny.

Yes, MS hasn't been as good as Sony as promoting the "hipness" factor of Xbox compared to PS (and probably have less cost for advertising than Sony). But apparently MS have a different strategy. To let the games talk for themselves.

 Advertising dollars MS spends far more - I believe the figure was around $0.5 billion spent on the Xbox 1 when it launched. That was considered ridiculous at the time.  Then there's the developers they've paid off for content. Besides possible back room deals we don't see developers like Insomniac getting anything from Sony - same with MGS4. They've chosen the hardware which most suits their games. Then there's Free Radical's Haze, doesn't it seems strange that a game which was originally going to be multiplatform was later confirmed as PS3 exclusive? 

Sony fanboys probably have nothing to do but to hang around forums, while X360 fans are busy gaming.

 Then again you're devoting plenty of your time to this thread.