Wednesday, May 26, 2004
If you want to criticize MS regarding gaming, this is how you do it. Sorry fellas, ya gotta take the hardware hit. We've been used to subsidized gaming machines for awhile now and we're certainly not going back. Get in there, put 100% behind your product, or get the hell out.
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Given the choice between paying the actual price for a machine or having to pay for idiotic umbrella subscription rates I'll choose the former. Blizzard showed that the best way to do online play was to make it free and sell more games because the end product is more appealing.
MS is also pushing the subscription model on their software and will likely make the up-front price look lower as well, but in the end you'll not be able to just pick up your 10-year-old console, dust it off and play the game without the subscription. (I can still play on battle.net now if I want to, no hassle, no bills..)
MS is also pushing the subscription model on their software and will likely make the up-front price look lower as well, but in the end you'll not be able to just pick up your 10-year-old console, dust it off and play the game without the subscription. (I can still play on battle.net now if I want to, no hassle, no bills..)
If only MS stuck to their guns. (Potentially) taking the hard drive out of the next console is a sin. Don't pull a Sony and make me buy some an add-on. Add-on hardware has a dismal adoption rate in the console realm. Think Nintendo 64DD, think Sega 32X, both flops. The Sony HD isn't selling like hotcakes either.
Don't be MS the software company. Be MS the console maker. But alas, realistically we know you'll never catch the hearts and minds of Japanese gamers. Same reason why they don't buy our cars. Their stuff is better, and they know it.
But still, do it for little Tuanie. He can't get enough of your shit. Oh, and could you just buy Tecmo and be done with it? You're already halfway there. What's another acquisition eh? :)
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Don't be MS the software company. Be MS the console maker. But alas, realistically we know you'll never catch the hearts and minds of Japanese gamers. Same reason why they don't buy our cars. Their stuff is better, and they know it.
But still, do it for little Tuanie. He can't get enough of your shit. Oh, and could you just buy Tecmo and be done with it? You're already halfway there. What's another acquisition eh? :)
