It’s About Time We Cut Microsoft Some Slack

[kungfuian]

Ignoring/forgiving their original intentions and horrible pr makes no difference! You can forgive them all you want they are still stuck with the choices they've made.

Answer me this; presented with the choice why should I chose them over Sony?

First off, why should I settle for inferior multiplats? They chose to go the media route and made hardware with that in mind. All the turn arounds in the world don't change that fact. At the end of the day they are stuck with hardware designed for a different functionality. As a result it is weaker hardware! I don't know about anyone else but I refuse to buy inferior versions of games! Why should I?

And second, why should I settle for a less diverse library of games? Currently the PS4 just has an enormous advantage as far as exclusives go. Anyone saying otherwise is not looking at the full list of exclusives (it's not even close anymore). And it's library is also much much much more diverse. The list of exclusives is just enormously in Sony's favor. And again, forgiveness or not, this is Microsoft's doing! They're the ones who choose to push the Halo, Gears, Forza trifecta at us year after year (all great games but were is the new big IPs), and they are the ones that put in place the horrible parity clause (do you know how many great small to mid tier games x-box players are missing out on because of this shit).

Look don't get me wrong, the One is not a bad systme. It's just not as good of a system as PS4. If your best friends play on x-box you should get it instead of ps4, and if your favorite game is Halo you should get one instead of ps4. But for the rest of us I just don't see it. At this point the X-box feels more like a second console used for exclusives (a few times a year event system like all of Nintendo's). Or maybe the kind you pick up toward the end of a console cycle with a bunch of games to get caught up.

Personally, I have every system know to man (like all of them), because I'm can never seem to let myself miss out on exclusives. Sunset, Ori, gears, quantum break, you will be mine! For these games the One has been 'forgiven', but I will be waiting until it super bargain priced before I pick it up.