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Cerebralbore101 on 13 May 2020
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sales2099 said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

All those bolded games being hyped up remind me so much of the Vita's 1st party lineup being hyped up. Games I had never heard of, games from studios without much of a good track record. Games that would also be available on another platform (PS4 in Vita's case, PC in XB2's case). I remember arguing with Sony hardcores over whether or not Vita would have a lineup to compete with 3DS. They continually grasped at straws, pinning their hopes on the most unknown, unproven studios. Here we see the same thing. History repeats itself I guess. 

I hear ya, but I wouldn’t call Ninja Theory, Obsidian, and Playground unproven studios. They all produce some of the most critically acclaimed games in the last decade. So it’s not all hopes and dreams. 

Absolutely agreed on Playground, Obsidian, and NT not being unproven studios. I wasn't talking about those three studios at all. See my previous reply to Shika for more on that.

NightlyPoe said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

Yes. Imagine you are halfway into the 360/PS3 generation. You've already got ten-twenty 360 games. Then your 360 RRODs. Are you seriously going to buy a PS3, and all those games over again? Or just eat your loss, and buy another 360? 

1.  Microsoft extended a generous warranty.

2.  It goes without saying that a product that is receiving international news articles detailing children crying because of mass catastrophic hardware failure might lose more than a few potential customers.

They did extend a generous warranty. Replacement 360's in all likelyhood got counted as a sale though.

Nobody really knew the extent of the RROD fiasco until it was long over. Analysts were guessing anywhere from 10% to 30% failure rate on first gen 360s. MS was the only one that knew the real number to be around 50% at the time, and hardcore Xbox fans were guessing as low as 8%. Trust me, I was in the Xbox camp at the time, and wrongly shrugged off the RROD issue as if it was nothing. It's really hard for something like RROD to affect sales in a negative fashion, when the actual failure rate is a giant question mark for most consumers.