Yesterday proved why the fanboy console wars are stupid

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None of these companies can ever be allowed to sit at the top and dominate like the PS2 era Sony did because at this point they all have crazy anti-consumer type ideas they'd love to implement and have been shown to either attempt to do so or have been researching it.

we need the competition to keep them all honest. we need the competition so that as consumers we have enough leverage to say if you do this we'll just go over here and give them our money instead of you.

if Xbox fanboys had their way and their side won and crushed Sony we'd be looking at a Microsoft's original plans as the only choice on the market excluding Nintendo who is on a self-induced path to their own potential demise and won't listen to anybody and doesn't care about what the market wants.

some of these Xbox fanboys are like the battered wife with a black eye still clinging to their husband that put it on them. they hated the policies but fanboyism is all they know so when that punch came form the one they love "he just hit me cause he loves me."
 

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None of these companies can ever be allowed to sit at the top and dominate like the PS2 era Sony did because at this point they all have crazy anti-consumer type ideas they'd love to implement and have been shown to either attempt to do so or have been researching it.

we need the competition to keep them all honest. we need the competition so that as consumers we have enough leverage to say if you do this we'll just go over here and give them our money instead of you.

if Xbox fanboys had their way and their side won and crushed Sony we'd be looking at a Microsoft's original plans as the only choice on the market excluding Nintendo who is on a self-induced path to their own potential demise and won't listen to anybody and doesn't care about what the market wants.

some of these Xbox fanboys are like the battered wife with a black eye still clinging to their husband that put it on them. they hated the policies but fanboyism is all they know so when that punch came form the one they love "he just hit me cause he loves me."

Did Xbox stans really ask for anything that Microsoft was throwing at them tho?:dwillhuh:

Edit: I also don't see how what Xbox was doing hurts competition.
I saw it as the same thing as the PC vs Mac argument.
Both have ultimately the same purpose but just different methods of doing them.
 

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Like M$ did :mjpls:
they've all done it. Nintendo refused to move console gaming out of the stone age and Sony shoved Blu-Ray on the PS3 and drive the price sky high to a point people didn't wanna pay and Microsoft tried to go all-digital.

each of these companies got to the top or close to it and tried to dictate to the market the way things will be.
 

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yup we need competition cuz at the end of the day lets say sony crused microsoft this gen best believe next gen they would've did the same thing xbox was going do in terms of the used games and always online shyt
 

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they've all done it. Nintendo refused to move console gaming out of the stone age and Sony shoved Blu-Ray on the PS3 and drive the price sky high to a point people didn't wanna pay and Microsoft tried to go all-digital.

each of these companies got to the top or close to it and tried to dictate to the market the way things will be.

It's called being innovative and trying something new my man.

To me it sounds like you're contradicting your own argument.

You say you want competition but you don't want new ideas to bolster the competition?
 

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MS gaming division was thinking like the OS division....See they can get away with doing almost anything they want with Windows OS , because who else are we going to go to?( Macs aren't the answer :russ:).
 

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It's called being innovative and trying something new my man.

To me it sounds like you're contradicting your own argument.

You say you want competition but you don't want new ideas to bolster the competition?
none of that was innovation. maybe Blu-Ray but it was ahead of its time at that point because the tech was brand new and very expensive. we paid a heavy premium for a tech that most games barely use today.

innovation is positive. innovation isn't saying all games are gonna be on a cartridge and we don't care about online multiplayer on our console. its not bootstrapping your high priced disc drive to your console so you can beat out a rival technology at the expense of gamers. its not forcing gamers to go all digital so you can get in on and control any transaction in gaming where money exchanges hands.

Xbox Live was innovation putting 4 controller poets on the N64 was innovation
 

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none of that was innovation. maybe Blu-Ray but it was ahead of its time at that point because the tech was brand new and very expensive. we paid a heavy premium for a tech that most games barely use today.

innovation is positive. innovation isn't saying all games are gonna be on a cartridge and we don't care about online multiplayer on our console. its not bootstrapping your high priced disc drive to your console so you can beat out a rival technology at the expense of gamers. its not forcing gamers to go all digital so you can get in on and control any transaction in gaming where money exchanges hands.

Xbox Live was innovation putting 4 controller poets on the N64 was innovation

I'm not an Xbox stan, but I'm willing to play devils advocate for them.

We all hate kinect but how can you say that shyt wasn't innovative?

I think M$ presentation was terrible. But the vision they had was one point when it comes to innovation.

How they wanted to get there obviously wasn't going to work though.

M$ basically said: "We can get you to the Promise Land, but you have to sacrifice your first born to get there."

People didn't like that, so M$ just has to find a different way to get us there.

Edit: Reading your post again and I can't seem to find what separates your innovative and not innovative comparisons. XBL is but Digital Gaming isnt? 4 Controller Slots are but a Blu-Ray Player isn't?
 
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