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"er Mario 64 - This was my return to console gaming. No game has come close to making me feel like I did when I first put that akward controller in my hand and ran Mario around outside the castle. I bought a Nintendo 64 on the spot for that game.
Metal Gear Solid 2 - As I watched the E3 trailer on the internet, I just kept muttering, "There is no way that is game footage... there is no way that is game footage" It left me stunned that the PS2 could perform that level of environment interactivity and enem"
Sunday, November 15, 2009
"ave gone through 3 consoles now. A launch console, an elite, and now a Halo Edition console. 1-2 years is the most I get out of my 360s. I play it evey night for atleast 3 hours.
I believe the reason for this is the difference of Sony being a hardware company and Microsoft being a software company.
Sony, in general, has made very sound hardware (I know... I know... the PS1 CD skipping thing). The PS3 has a lot of brand new technology and I haven't heard too much about them breaking down. Microsoft, it seems, to have the culture of patch and iterative development. Did they purposely cut corners on hardware so they could focus on the software side (XBLA, Live, etc...)? I still do not believe they fixed the problem when my Elite and Halo edition system when both of them supposedly 'fixed' the problem.
My wonder is what impact does this have on their sales numbers? If some of the numbers are to believed, let's say 33% of Xboxes go bad. I, like my friends, have bought another while mine was getting fixed (or traded it in when Gamestop let you do that). My friends have sold their refurbished and kept the new one.
Just playing with numbers, let's say 1/3 of the people that have a busted Xbox buy a new one or trade it in. VGCharts (http://www.vgchartz.com/) shows the Xbox360 has sold 32.51 million. PS3 - 25.26. Take 1/10 of those Xbox as re-bought/traded ones for dead systems... you take their numbers down to 29 million. The Microsoft Lead over Sony isn't nearly as big even knowing it shipped a year early. I also think I am being optimistic on how many units are failing.
As for not buying their next console... I would be lying to myself to say "I won't buy their next console." I love their online interface and almost all my online gaming group are on the X360. The only thing I will do is wait a year before buying it to see what issues they have the next time ar"
Monday, October 19, 2009
