SirRockHardly on 09 July 2008
| dallas said: Of course the big question is whether this controller will be a big thing or not.....I have some doubts, sorry. For any add-on to be effective, it is going to have to have a lot of support. MS is basically going to have to pay companies to make good games for this add-on and they are going to have to do this more than once to get the ball rolling or else this will be another powerglove, sixaxis, eyetoy, etc. MS is also going to have to do some things w/ development.....it might even have to make a lot of the games that use this 1st party, as they are going to have to basically copy nintendo's "feel" for games, i.e. make everything cartoony/fun/ casual. In the end, the biggest plus about this controller and MS itself is that the company is loaaaaaaaddddddddeeeeedddddd. they can and really, have been simply pouring money into marketing, operations (refurbs), etc to a bit of a higher degree than Sony or Ninty in order to make the sacrifices that they need to make their business grow. I'm not saying that this will or won't work, but if it will all of these things : move to casual strategy, pouring out some $$$ like no tomorow for development, and they hopefully haven't made a POS controller like a lot of the Xbots are silently hoping that they aren't. |
Why are the two mutually exclusive? From where they stand right now, they are taking good care of the hardcore, and from what I am hearing, they are going to take care of the casual now as well. Sounds like a sound business strategy. The best of both worlds.
