| Ganoncrotch said: To say that last Gen Xbox was great across the board is some strong revisionist history which would have to ignore the fact that every single non HDMI Xbox360 is pretty much landfill fodder today because of the $1b+ costing RROD disaster, E74, Faulty scratching disk drives, non reading Xbox360 slim disc drives... I mean, from a hardware point of view the X360 was powerful but terrible in reliability. The end of (or from the middle of) last gen MS and XB as a division also turned their back on the core side of gaming and chased hard for the Blue Ocean that the wii was swimming in with the hard push @ Kinect which not only torpedo'd the end of last gen for them but completely ruined the start of this generation for them. Like I say though... to look back on the X360 and think that the whole gen was all roses requires a lot of things be forgotten, mostly the start and end of the generation, it's that bit in the middle where it was amazing. |
This isnt about weather its all roses or not. No console is perfect and they all have had there fair share of issues. Its about the overall success of the platforms. Only difference is with the 360, all the billions it cost to build and fix issues with where basically paid off via Gold memberships. MS was sitting on a gold mine with subscriptors and they did it for more than a decade. Thats alot of income coming from nothing.
Kinect was successful and is in the Guinness Book of records for the fastest selling electronic accessory. Lets not forget Sony did the exact same thing with less success with the PS Move. So that point is not a valid one.
The PS3 did not have that luxury of subs so every time there was an issue, Sony basically had to bite the bullet on top of there already heavily expensive console expenses etc.
Last edited by Azzanation - on 20 September 2019
