Deserve praise? Not at all. I actually cannot believe they even recieve the amount of support they are atm.

I have always wanted MS out of the gaming business because I have always felt that they have had a hidden agenda. That agenda was revealed to all of us last year and I cannot believe that people still support them and buy the console. I just wished people would stop and think before they support MS. Hopefully in the near future MS will see the One as a failure and pull out of tne industry.

IMO there is no room for MS in this business, which clearly shows by their lack of making games and not buying exclusivity. This gen will be the biggest test for them. Since they are no longer the leading platform in sales, more and more developers might rule them out or give them the bad ports we saw on PS3, then they will be forced to fochs more on building their own first party library.

No
not a single company deserves praise, they just need to work hard to make their product "good" in the eyes of the consumer, they still need to do that.

now since sony is on topic, people just start looking at Ps3 as a nice product when sony released the slim one (my opinion), before that PS3 was still a joke.

now same applies to MS, they just need to do the "right" politics, and when the time comes their product will be desirable again.. now is not with things like this http://gamersyndrome.com/2014/news/xbox-news/chinese-xbox-one-games-contain-one-time-activation-code-cannot-be-resold/ that will make me change my opinion about them.

You think companies want to do you a solid and you're claiming I have have naivete? That's funny stuff.

Consumers didn't care how much cost PS3 cost to produce. Simply trying to sell a console for a price that high was ridiculous considering the 360 was available and doing comprable graphics.

I'm glad X1 failed with its original plants and I'm glad the PS3 failed at its launch price.

I don't feel a need to hold a grudge on either though. Some people in this forum don't even like MS getting support because of their original decisions, that's holding a grudge.

There's a huge amount of space in between a company trying to do their fans a solid, and a company intentionally trying to fuck them over.  A huge amount of space.

Consumers don't have to care how much it cost to make a PS3, never said they did.  I said comparing the PS3's price to the PS4/XB1 is a straw man.  Completely different situations, which is relevant in a discussion such as this, that goes beyond merely looking at the packaging.  And, to go a step further, one could argue that the XB1's pricing is ridiculous, considering the PS4 is available and doing better graphics.

Their acts of desperation were too little, too late. They wouldn't have listened to a thing --most likely-- had not PlayStation given them a sound beating! They deserve no praise!

Are you telling me that you've never upset somebody, perhaps losing their trust or attention, and did whatever you could to gain it back? You would most likely do whatever possible to get into that person's good graces once again. And if you did, would you want that person to say, "You're only doing these things because you want me to like or trust you again." And you'd think, "Yeah, that's why I'm doing it. What else could I do?"

Or would you rather just never be forgiven and whenever you do something stupid people hate you and nothing can change that?

Kek no

You don't get praise for fixing something you broke in the first place.

Praise the consumers in this case for still having the strenght to vote with their wallets and make big companys like microsoft turnaround.I will praise microsoft when they advertise a fullgaming console nextgen,so when im sure they learned from this all. But im not praising them for their turnarounds for the xboxone as only the consumer deserves the praise,microsoft just followed the money.

Nope. thats a terrible stretch. They are only doing what "consumers want" because the system was going to do much worse otherwise. Its that simple

Me too. I've never trusted microsoft. They seem to prefer throwing money around over making good products. I like the leading staff better at Sony and Nintendo who seem more involved, rather than just executives who see gaming as a trojan horse to advance their goals.