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Porcupine_I on 24 October 2013
Spock said:
The World has spoken.


 But Main Street's still all cracked and broken!



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

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Kane1389 on 24 October 2013
Jereel Hunter said:
Kane1389 said:
kowenicki said:
Second half of the penultimate paragrpaph sums it up well. Early adopters are fans...

Who knew Playstation had more vociferous and loyal fans that will jump in early? Shocker.

The long game is very different.

Like this gen showed? 

''Jumping in early'' was the only reason Xbox stayed competitive for as long as it did.

That's not really accurate. Vociferous and loyal fans were the ONLY reason the PS3 didn't cease to exist. Do you remember the first 18 months of the PS3's life? It was the most expensive. It's biggest early titles were mostly delayed for long periods (i.e. GT5, KZ2) or terrible disappointments (i.e. Lair, Haze). All Multiplats were superior on the 360, and PSN was a pale shadow of Xbox Live. While the 360 had more early adopters, the fact that literally EVERY gamer didn't go 360 first was due solely to Sony's loyal fanbase. Sony more than made up that ground as the generation continued - no question. But let's face it, if the PS4 hadn't been riding a wave of loyalty, it would have been left adrift.


Yet it had Blu Ray (ba FAR the cheapest), free online, and games like Uncharted, Heavenly Sword and the freaking MGS4. PSN was nothing to write home about but the online play worked pretty well. And multiplat difference wasnt anything too major. Dont pretend like PS3 had no appeal at all during Nov 06-Jun0 08



Too_Talls on 24 October 2013
DerNebel said:
Too_Talls said:
The Japs..............HUGE part of the market and extremely stubborn when it comes to buying american made products. Overall, the xbox one does not stand a tiny bit of a chance, I think they can beat the wii U in the long run but no chance against the PS4, Cheaper, more powerful, doesn't have to be advertised by it's own company because the internet is always doing that job for them. Also, the gap is closing on the big system seller call of duty series. It's known to be better played on xbox for the general number of participants in the community, online experience and most of all the xbox controller has been well advertised as the best for FPS'. If anyone has paid attention, IGN and alot of other people have been trying to sell the idea that the PS4 controller is better suited to play shooters than the PS3 controller. They even tempted me and I am strong on the 360 controller, I won MW3 money on the 360 got cocky and entered a ps3 tournament without practice with the controller and got bounced in the 1st round.

In the end the only thing xbox can hope to win is north america. and accept defeat everywhere else.

Please don't blame Japan for Microsofts inability to market their product over there.


What do we blame? Microsoft? the world for being in between the two places? languages? I assume you would know how to market to the Japanese. Japanese are a weird bunch and sony and nintendo has a clear advantage being rooted in america and Japan. No matter what microsoft does the Japanese simply DO NOT WANT. 

It's kind of a mystery why xbox can do well in othr places but not even be looked at as a legit system in Japan. Maybe they don't respect american tech. They are admittedly a brilliant bunch. 

Easiest guess is to say they would rather stick to their own. It does help their economy, Why buy a foreign product that does the same things as one produced in your own land? If I lived there I probably wouldn't buy an xbox either.



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BMaker11 on 24 October 2013

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Porcupine_I on 24 October 2013

Wait a minute! I just realized that "twice higher" literally means "three times as much"



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

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BMaker11 on 24 October 2013
Too_Talls said:


What do we blame? Microsoft? the world for being in between the two places? languages? I assume you would know how to market to Japs. Japs are a weird bunch and sony and nintendo has a clear advantage being rooted in america and Japan. No matter what microsoft does Japs simply DO NOT WANT. 

It's kind of a mystery why xbox can do well in othr places but not even be looked at as a legit system in Japan. Maybe they don't respect american tech. They are admittedly a brilliant bunch. 

Easiest guess is to say they would rather stick to their own. It does help their economy, Why buy a foreign product that does the same things as one produced in your own land? If I lived there I probably wouldn't buy an xbox either.


Do everyone a favor and stop calling Japanese people "Japs". It's a pejorative and, as such, is offensive.



Too_Talls on 24 October 2013

I don't mean anything offensive. I'm just too lazy to type out japanese......I do see your point. Just want people to know I don't mean anything by it.



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BMaker11 on 24 October 2013
Porcupine_I said:
Wait a minute! I just realized that "twice higher" literally means "three times as much"

Not really, the article's creator just doesn't know how to math. 61% does not equal "almost three quarters". If he said "almost two thirds", then it'd be correct as 66% is double that of 33%, but whatever

Or you're being sarcastic and you just "whooshed" me




fireburn95 on 24 October 2013

that 399 sweet spot



pokoko on 24 October 2013
Too_Talls said:
DerNebel said:

Please don't blame Japan for Microsofts inability to market their product over there.


What do we blame? Microsoft? the world for being in between the two places? languages? I assume you would know how to market to Japs. Japs are a weird bunch and sony and nintendo has a clear advantage being rooted in america and Japan. No matter what microsoft does Japs simply DO NOT WANT.

It's kind of a mystery why xbox can do well in othr places but not even be looked at as a legit system in Japan. Maybe they don't respect american tech. They are admittedly a brilliant bunch.

Easiest guess is to say they would rather stick to their own. It does help their economy, Why buy a foreign product that does the same things as one produced in your own land? If I lived there I probably wouldn't buy an xbox either.

Or it might be because Playstation has far more Japanese games than Xbox has.  If one console had most of the titles I was interested it while the other only had a few, I would go with the former.

I don't really understand this need to blame something so obvious on, "but the Japanese don't like American stuff!"  The same Japan that has like 1,000 KFC restaurants?

You've only to look at the fact that some of the more popular third-party games in Japan are only on Playstation to understand why this has happened.  Maybe you can blame third party publishers for not putting everything on the 360 but there probably isn't much gain in that, from their view.