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Microsoft 2013-2014 326 66.13%
 
Sony 2006-2007 166 33.67%
 
Total:492
The Fury on 15 May 2014
Seece said:
What else do you expect Yusef to say? And don't say the truth, it's a business they're working at remember.

He didn't need to mention the PS3 at all. Simple as that. 

What he said:

"People have been more satisfied with the Xbox 360 than the PS3, so in that respect people have less of a need to upgrade in the short-term due to regular updates for the Xbox 360,..."

What he could have said:

"People are very satisfied with the Xbox 360 and what it has to offer, so in that respect people have less of a need to upgrade in the short-term due to regular updates for the Xbox 360,..."

2 very different statments, and the latter less petty.



Hmm, pie.

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Zadainie on 15 May 2014

MS takes the cake



JazzB1987 on 15 May 2014

people have bad memory rofl.



BMaker11 on 15 May 2014
The Fury said:
Seece said:
What else do you expect Yusef to say? And don't say the truth, it's a business they're working at remember.

He didn't need to mention the PS3 at all. Simple as that. 

What he said:

"People have been more satisfied with the Xbox 360 than the PS3, so in that respect people have less of a need to upgrade in the short-term due to regular updates for the Xbox 360,..."

What he could have said:

"People are very satisfied with the Xbox 360 and what it has to offer, so in that respect people have less of a need to upgrade in the short-term due to regular updates for the Xbox 360,..."

2 very different statments, and the latter less petty.

The topic was about the sales gap between PS4 and XBone, though. Sony's console is relevant to his statement by virtue of the question that was asked. So bringing up how satisfied people were with their last gen consoles with respect to how many people are upgrading to the current gen would only have people implying "what? So people aren't satisfied with their PS3s, and that's why they're buying so many PS4s?".

Even if he said the latter quote in your post, the implication about PS3 would be there, whether by inference or the from the reporter straight up asking it as a legitimate follow up question.

Long story short: he shouldn't have brought upgrading into it at all. He should have kept on about how it's the most successful launch and is ahead of where 360 was in the same time period and that should lead to success (granted, as I've said before, it's only ahead because it was extremely front loaded, as sales have taken a nosedive, and it's coming off the heels of the very successful 360 as opposed to 360 was coming off the low selling OG Xbox and against PS3 hype before $600 announcement, therefore it was relatively easy to outsell 360 in the first couple months)



Serious_frusting on 15 May 2014

Sony were arrogant. Microsoft were just pure stupid.



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kitler53 on 15 May 2014
RolStoppable said:
At a first glance, there is no clear winner here. But giving it a second thought, Sony issued those statements from a position of dominance whereas Microsoft is doing so from the position of an also-ran. Therefore the level of arrogance is higher in Microsoft's case.

sums it up perfectly.   i've never understood why a product that is in a tight race for last place could generate such arrogance.



Proxy-Pie on 15 May 2014

I'd say Sony 2006, though they vastly improved since.



Zkuq on 15 May 2014
RolStoppable said:
At a first glance, there is no clear winner here. But giving it a second thought, Sony issued those statements from a position of dominance whereas Microsoft is doing so from the position of an also-ran. Therefore the level of arrogance is higher in Microsoft's case.

This.



GameAnalyser on 15 May 2014
bananaking21 said:
BMaker11 said:
bananaking21 said:
Sony 2006. they basically told their fanbase to get two jobs to get the PS3.

And MS said to stick with 360 if you don't have good internet. A lot of people either live in rural areas so just don't get internet, period (that's a big middle finger to them) or can't afford good internet, on top of other billing priorities (you know, mortgage/rent, electricity....the essentials). In a way, that is like saying "get a second job to afford good internet to play XBone". That may be a reach on the second point, but I don't think it's stretching it too far. So in one statement, MS told consumers to screw off....twice.

And if someone says "if you can't afford internet, you shouldn't be playing video games"...you should be able to play video games without internet. End of story.


Agreed. but thats not the point. but sony basically said to its consumers "if you cant afford the PS3, you are not good enough for us, work harder."

But Microsoft's "deal with it" still sticks at the top spot. The above poll result favors this.



J_Allard on 15 May 2014

Which one did Ken Kuturagi work for? That one.