RolStoppable said:
JaggedSac said:
RolStoppable said:
It's not just RRoD, there's much more to it. The image of the first Xbox prevented the 360 from selling better as well. What was that image? The Halobox or the shooterbox, mainly because the biggest exclusive games for the Xbox were FPS games and there wasn't much else that stood out.
The 360 still couldn't get fully rid of the image of being the shooterbox although the variety of genres did improve compared to Microsoft's first console. Nevertheless, a lot of people see the 360 as a console that is heavily catering to American tastes which explains the mediocre sales in Europe and the horrible sales in Japan. A lot of the best games for the 360 are available on PC and/or PS3 as well, that doesn't help either.
Another Xbox system would have to overcome the image of being a console for Americans AND being an unreliable system. Certainly these things won't prevent 360 fans from buying Microsoft's next system, but how high are the chances that people who dislike or don't care for the 360 would buy the next Xbox?
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The same odds that the 360 outsells the regular XBox. As long as M$ continues to expand its ever increasingly amazing game library, gamers will flock. They might not have a system that is placed in retirement homes and cruise ship game rooms, but who gives a shit.
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Most of the growth in hardware sales can be attributed to the 12 month head start over the competition instead of launching 12-18 months later. That fact alone led to a large difference in available software compared to its competition and gave the 360 a big advantage over the situation the Xbox was in.
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Really..because they are selling more weekly now than they did when they started, shouldn't the release of the PS3 have caused a major drop in sales since it is such a superior product compared to M$'s shitty product.
