It’s About Time We Cut Microsoft Some Slack

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

Chazore said:

walsufnir said:

DakonBlackblade said:

To be fair the XOne is exactly were its suposed to be, I mean the X360 was as sucessfull as it was cause PS3 screwed up badly, but Sony and the Playstation brand have an enormous following datting back to the PS1 days, as soon as ppl saw the PS4 was great they went back to Playstation, the fact that the One sells as well as it does despite the fact that ppl were just waiting an oportunity to return to Sony is an achievement for MS and a testament of what they managed to buil on the OGXbox and Xbox360 days.

So every competitor is destined to fail because of the PS1 and they only buy PS because they don't know better? Btw, I think the 360 was successful because it was an amazing console. This doesn't mean the PS3 wasn't, though. 

This, the way he makes it sound as if Sony is a literal god that bestows greatness upon anyone without it losing a fight but losing on purpose instead. That simply isn't the case though since the 360 was a good console for that generation and it brought some old and new within that generation.

People are also very quick to forget how arrogant Sony was last gen with their "get a second job if you want our console" which I still find more damning than "always online", especially since PS3 also started out at a higher price point and their cell cpu is also screwing them over with full on BC support compared to Wii U, XB1 and PC and yet no one is giving Sony huge blows for lack of BC, those that don't give it claim they don't care about old games and then suddenly they do when remakes or remasters come about which shows in the end that they do in fact care. I honestly don't know what planet people come from when they pay for something they intend to keep yet don't want to ever play it again in the future let alone on another device of the same brand and yet pay more for the same game with little added to it but still being the same game, I personally always want to play my games both old and new.

Wait a minute. You say people are quick to forget something that happened a decade ago as opposed to something that happened 2 years ago? That some how the Sony's policies with the PS3 are somehow more pertient to the PS4 than the XB1's policies are to the XB1?

Yah ok...

Ironic that you talk about how nobody criticizes Sony for lack of BC. You seem to forget, when PS3 did have BC, nobody cared because it was too expensive. Nobody cared about backwards compatibility for all of last generation, nobody cared for the first two years of this one, but now all of a sudden in 2015 we should care about the ability to play old games why? What's changed?

You make some kind of grandoise assumption that everyone who buys games buys them for the same reason, that they will always want to play dated games that they bought from way back. And that any other motive is Alien? If they sold their old console in the first place, why wouldn't they not sell the games they bought for that console as well? Isn't that a perfectly legitmate reason?

I didn't buy Paper Mario in hopes that I could play it on whatever came after then N64.