The third console curse: Which was the biggest stumble?

[Chazore]

SanAndreasX said:

Ummm… Kinectimals?

Plus, every X1 game was going to be a Kinect game under Microsoft’s original plan.

All four of the console makers did have leadership with foot in mouth disease at the time of their third entries.

Hiroshi Yamauchi basically calling the RPG fans who jumped ship to PS1 hikkikomori.

Bernie Stolar refusing to localize Saturn games and capping it all off with “the Saturn is not our future.”

Ken Kutaragi claiming that people would work extra hours for “599 US dollars.”

The multiple meme-worthy statements from Adam Orth and Don Mattrick. 

Ken was one of the main reasons why I finally hopped off the Sony train back then. I bought my PS3 after saving up nearly a year for one via my retail job, then my PS3 ended up breaking down just a day before the warranty expired, but Sony still wouldn't cover it, and the PS3 was still expensive as hell to buy another, so I just decided I'd had enough and went for the cheaper Xbox 360 (My friends at the time had moved over to Xbox due to Modern Warfare II and Gears of War by that point, so that got me more involved with online play). 

Some CEO's will say absolutely daft and out of touch things to their public, but when it comes to insulting your fanbase or telling them to "get a second job", that's kinda where you draw the line, and it becomes more reasonable to just turn the other way and focus on something else instead. I was actually much better off going from PS3 to my 360/PC, but it Ken wasn't the sole reason (PS3 ports weren't that good, online play sucked for me and friends, hence why they moved to 360 before I did), he was just a domino effect for me to make the move to the competitor console at the time.

I still think he's an asshat to this day though.

Don and co at MS basically put the final nail in the coffin for me to stop bothering with Xbox altogether, and I just stayed with PC, with a side of Nintendo (Until last year, when I decided I'd had enough of stick drift, expensive games, less games that entice me to keep using the system, locking emulators behind online connections, etc, and then I sold my Switch). 

Last edited by Chazore - on 17 October 2024