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method114 on 14 July 2017
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malistix1985 said:
method114 said:

I'm glad they are getting this hate. It's the only thing encouraging them to do all those "solid" things you like. Otherwise believe me they wouldn't do it they'd just continue to push out their anti consumer policies. Plus them getting tons of hate at the X1 reveal is apparently what made Sony decide not to force us to pay for using used games so you see hate is necessary in order for companies to know we don't like what they are doing.

Just like I approved of the hate Sony got with the PS3 it forced them to make changes and now we have the PS4.

When Sony changed ship with PS3 people started to love them quite a lot and sales picked up.
When Microsoft changed ship with Xbox one, and yes they certainly did, people continued the hate and don't seem to care.

I guess the negativity is just a constant spiral and nothing they do this generation can save the bad image. I hope they will be able to recover even the Wii-U and PS3 seemed to be viewed as much better then the XBox One is. Doesn't really matter for me personally since I don't mind buying every console and I actually play most on PC anyway, which will always be the best and doesn't get a lot of hate since there is no main company behind it.

But I do think people need to give credit where it is deserved and if you just read this topic from page 1 to 3 it seems like people don't just hate Xbox but wish it did a lot worse then it already did, there is no reason for that. We are all gamers and harware selling well is the main reason we all get better games it doesn't matter if its a videocard in a pc or a console we don't prefer, everything needs to sell to grow our business.

Agreed with pretty much everything you said but the PS3 did get hate for a very long time as well. I remember getting one about 3 years after release and it was still getting hate. One thing to remember though is that Sony turned that around with great new IP'sexclusives and at the end of the day it's hard to argue against great games. The best people can do is say "I don't like those kinds of games". They can't argue how well they were ratedrecievedsold. MS started off great this gen but then kind of fell flat this last two years or so. I think both the lack of exclusives and the horrible start have sort of snowballed into each other. I know for a fact the hate wouldn't be this big if they were releasing as many well rated exclusives as Sony is.