how much market will microsoft lose after this ?
Trolling game innitiated..
This was the best part
^ Look at that 's face. He wanted to crofl right then and there.
Haha that's great.
Pretty stoked about the Mirror's Edge sequel tbh.
I was reading up on this last night and wasing at the xbox done. Never has a console war been so brief and won during a speech at E3.
"599" killed all the momentum the psx and ps2 had built for Sony, it was announced at E3, pretty much gave away the NA market to MicrosoftI was reading up on this last night and was
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Yeah because of that you could buy a 360 and a WII for about the same price. Microsoft just gave it all back now"599" killed all the momentum the psx and ps2 had built for Sony, it was announced at E3, pretty much gave away the NA market to Microsoft
I dont think they gave it all back but I would think a large portion. The original xbox had no almost no brand loyalty, given the short life of the first one. The year head start and the lower price is what gave it its big push into the lead console, Sony's arrogance helped as well, this time there is no year head start, and no price advantage, but there is a brand loyalty and its hard to predict exactly( brand loyalty is a major reason why Apple is so valueable) how it will effect the sales, gamerscores and purchases like videos and movies and the whole LIVE ecosystem that many gamers are embedded in might help a little, the PS2 had none of those, that is why it was easier to get those gamers to buy into the 360. This time around i think Sony learned front its mistake, they took less of a risk on alot of things; from the hardware, no proprietary cell structure , PC based developer friendly all the way to price point. Only time will tell if Microsoft is as arrogant as Sony was. I can see them slowly going away from the DRM thing, first mention it is up to the publisher 200000 times, they slowly move form that to changing terms and saying they are now forcing publishers to not enforce the DRM checks, I could also see a 50 dollar price drop quickly within a year. I could also see them being stubborn about it, these are the same people that made the Zune. Time will tell. For me the only deciding factor on all my console purchases was the controller, i am in the minority but i prefer the Sony controller's layout with the stick on the same horizontal plane. I will be in line for the PS4... the day the price drops to 299. (hopefully in 2 years time) until then, i have a ps3 and a 650m nvidia card that does OK on high settings. plus i dont game as much as i used to. p.s. typing on a tablet is hard
Back then the Blue Ray disc was a high selling point and more people were ok with spending that much money for it.
At the time Blue Ray disc players were like 300 something dollars. So at the time of purchased you felt as if 500 was justified enough.
I didn't get my PS3 till it dropped to 400 so I didn't get raped with the 600 dollar price tag. lol
meh got mine for 115 and used it for a total of two hours to play a game. My sister uses it to watch netflix now. Got a blu ray player for 40 bucks, so i have no use for it
I never owned a PS3... I only bought an XBox 360 when they dropped to $250 (Arcade model). That's about my price point for a console. Don't really mind waiting a year or two until prices drop considerably, tbh...
As Shadow said, back when the PS3 came out there was the bluray novelty, but neither of these consoles offer anything like that.
keep in mind when it came out it wasn't just blu rays but HDDVDs. That battle went on for like a year
But the HDDVD drive was an add-on for the Xbox, whereas on the PS3 it was built-in (thus part of the price). I actually think that decision right there basically won the format war in the long run, tbh
nope nope nope it was the porn
I'll take your word for it
whenever there's a format war whoever porn sides with winsI'll take your word for it
Yeah man, hopefully porn picks Linux next tbh.
Dead before it evens hits the stores.
I really have no words. I expect Microsoft to start with some backpedaling eventually after they realize that their sales will be in the crapper. But the damage is done.
won't happen for a long long long time. They think people will still actually buy it.
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