Wow maybe Sony was right about Blu-ray?

[Magnific0]

Viper1 said:

Magnific0 said:

Sony : We're on top of our game, we are one hell of a hardware designer/manufacturer, there's a big chance of success along a great risk with Blu-ray. We'll take the risk, if we can't do it now, then when?

Microsoft: Damn we're hurting, we just had to put down our first gaming console after just 4 years. We are not good hardware designers/manufacturers, let's play it safe and hope for the best by launching another console as soon as possible. Let's not take unnecessary risks, let's go with good 'ol cheap DVD.

 Years later:

Blu-ray wins format war and RRoD burns millions of X360s.

 Sony: Well, what do you know!

Microsoft: Well, what do you know!

You accuse me of bias and then you post this?

The media drive in the X360 has no relevance on the RROD issue.   Why are you even relating the two?

 

haha, I knew some people wouldn't get it. Obviously they're not related but if you read my post above this one you'll understand. What I meant is Microsoft played it safe and fortunate for them 'cause if they had taken the risk to include an HD drive and take even more losses on their hardware they wouldn't have been able to pull it off. Just imagine this, an even more expensive to produce 360 and then boom! RRod! 1.1 billion dollars and look at the current scenario now where Wii dominates and pricier PS3 outsells it, it wouldn't look pretty for them. That's why I jokingly said once RRod broke out and BR won the format war some MS executives probably said something among the lines of " whew! thank god we went with the cheap DVD! We can cope up with the RRod problem investing all that money we would have been losing on a HD-DVD equipped hardware, and that format lost to boot!" By the way, I didn't accuse you of bias. You can be all the bias you want , I don't give a crap.