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SupBambiKing on 17 January 2014


Tables have turned and now they want to get somehow into the "nice guy" image.Nothing more.
They won't say "Sony is the King and is ruling this Gen from far above"...noo...they just say "We are both doing good"
If this would be different he NEVER would have said that and so wouldn't have some here.It would go more like "We are the defining console of this Gen blabla" like we heard everywhere somehow Last Gen ;)



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fps_d0minat0r on 17 January 2014

Lol they forgot so quickly that the only reason xbox one will "sell a ton" at all is because of the hate it got.

The haters basically made the hard decisions for them that brought xbox one back on track and they still cant be grateful for it.



antfromtashkent on 17 January 2014

My gawd. People must have some short term memories around here.... I have been on this site a long time. I was a lerker for about a year before I joined too.... Its literally the tables turning and some people just love to play the victim all of a sudden.



dreamcast210 on 17 January 2014

Is this thread for real? Are you guys for real? Are you really arguing over the motive?

Who cares? Go play a game.



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jonathanalis on 17 January 2014

I like playing offline.
deal with it.



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hollabackenny on 17 January 2014
BMaker11 said:
hollabackenny said:
BMaker11 said:
sales2099 said:
BeElite said:
lol tables have turned for the old xbot, almost sounds like he's looking for a job.

You seriously got that from the whole gist of "we are doing great and so are our competitors"?

As braggy as he's been in the past, yes. Even when PS3 was selling well, did he ever acknowledge "the competition is doing good as well"?  Nope. "We sold more, people spent more money with us, we had the highest growth, WE ARE #1!" despite the competitor doing great as well.

Now that they're not on top, he's being humble.

edit: and in case anyone thinks he "wouldn't mention the competition on an MS site" or something like that, how about this? No "our competitors are doing great as well". No, instead "we're flat out doing better than them"


What are you saying? Do you have any idea what Public Relations is? Of course he's going to post positive news about Xbox sales or Live usage numbers, his job is to present a good image for the Xbox brand. He even says in the article you linked "We are proud and humbled to be the top online gaming service", he's respecting the competition while being proud of what the Xbox has accomplished, just as he is with this recent quote of his. 

At the end of the day he's an Xbox PR person, not a Playstation one. 

I know what PR is. And I know that he works for MS. But the original post being responded to was about how the tables have turned. Sales2099 said "that's what you got from we're doing great and so are our competitors?".

But when then they were on top, they never acknowledged how good the competition was doing, even though they were right on their tails (and eventually passed them). Major Nelson may not be a PS PR guy, but he sure does acknolwedge them when he's losing with "we're both doing well". When they were "both doing well" a few years ago, all he could say is "we're #1!". So yea...tables have turned


So because on ONE occassion he said "both consoles are selling well and will continue to do so" suddenly these supposed tables have turned? Even though as I said in my past post referencing a point you made and Major Nelson said they are 'proud and humble (respectful of the competition)' about the Live usage statistics. Every company loves to boast stats, every PR guy loves to boast stats (it is part of their job). I think people are reading into something that isn't there.



bubblegamer on 17 January 2014

lol Microsoft is just a big troll. They were primarily feeding the so called cpnsole wars when it was in their favor. Wii60 crap anyone?



Touma on 17 January 2014

This is a big change from 2007, look at this video for the launch of the PS3 in France.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0E_2omSeI

MS make good joke ;)



HesAPooka on 17 January 2014

Did he say the same in 07-08?



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deadly2choke on 17 January 2014
HesAPooka said:
Did he say the same in 07-08?

nope

http://majornelson.com/2005/05/20/xbox-360-vs-ps3-part-1-of-4/



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