"Microsoft Just Short Changed Everyone Who Has Bought An Xbox One"

[kane_magus]

Man, for some reason, the guys over on Forbes Games are seriously buttmad about this whole thing with Microsoft now selling a Kinect-less X-bone. o_O All I can say to all the early adopters that might feel "alienated" by this (which apparently includes those Forbes guys) is that they should have known it was going to happen sooner or later. Why is it apparently such a huge shock and a source of rage that Microsoft did this? As far as I'm concerned, I'd say good on Microsoft for doing it, even though I still have zero interest in buying an X-bone ever, regardless.

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[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

"Firstly the Xbox One is currently available in 13 countries compared to the PlayStation 4’s 72. Secondly Microsoft is leading the PS4 in software sales and, ultimately, it is better games (subjective as this may be) that always determine the console winner in each generation. Thirdly, in its first six months on sale Xbox One has outsold the Xbox 360, last generation’s winner, by 76%."

I'll just fire holes in this one paragraph of the butthurt "journalist".

1. The Xbox One would do HORRIBLY in any of those extra countries unless they're dominantly american-english speaking. A required Kinect would totally screw up the market for Microsoft. Hell, apparently the Kinect has enough trouble trying to understand them folk down under. Far easier to translate the dashboard for 100 new languages than program the Kinect for 100 new languages - reliably. Microsoft will need to unlink the Kinect to open up those new potential markets, and if they only unlink it for those markets then the current markets that don't WANT a kinect will be far more butthurt. Believe it or not, there's plenty that don't want the kinect.

For the record, I believe even in those 13 countries, the PS4 was STILL outselling the Xbone.

2. It's 6 months into the new console generation. All the games suck. Comparing turd #1 to turd #2 is pointless since none of them show what the console is capable. I hope. If software has already pushed the new generation then consoles are in trouble. :P Titanfall isn't super awesome, the fanboys can get over themselves.

The games that come out for the PS4 are going to be things made in NA, as well as the huge amount of software that you know is going to be made in Japan. We'll get ports of the finer parts a year or so delayed so those are going to start showing up later. If it follows the same as the last two generations, Microsoft is going to have a hard time drumming up sales or support in Japan. Hell, the 360 was beaten by the PS2 in weekly sales in Japan for most of it's lifespan while the PS2 was still actively sold.

3. Keep in mind that the PS3 suffered horribly in sales for it's first couple of years. Burdened by the very same problems Microsoft is currently experiencing. An over priced console that's trying to do everything rather than being a dedicated game machine. But more importantly, if the Xbone is outselling the 360, last gen's winner by 76%, keep in mind that the PS4 is outselling the bloody Xbone.

And yet another point to keep in mind is that even when the PS3 was starting off slow, the PS2 was still going full steam against the 360. In addition to the PS3's overpriced nature, the PS2's success slowed PS3 adoption even more as people continued to buy PS2's due to the price point and the huge catalogue of games available for it.


In the end, like the last article, it appears to be a butt hurt early adopter that seems to be pissed off that they spent 100 extra bucks for something that's going to become ... what it already was. Unnecessary for games. And as he likes to point out, games are what make the system.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

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