Yes, most certainly. And those Arcade games are always some pretty shitty stuff too.
The attitude against MS is back to the good old days. Long live Sony, they are always the best!
because Laa-yosh pointed out some obvious bias?
I agree to some extent - I'm finding myself on the side of Microsoft for many of the discussions, which typically happens when I feel one side is getting too much flack for the wrong reasons.
And what exactly are these "wrong reasons"?
Does it occur to any of you that
maybe most of the criticism you see all around is coming from people
without a preconceived bias towards any of the two companies? And
maybe that makes said opinions worth as much as yours?
I absolutely
hated Sony during the PS3's announcement and early days. The
sheer arrogance, consecutive PR disasters and downright disrespect for their customers made me run from their products for a long time. Not to mention the PS3's high price, which was boosted by Sony's agenda of using gamers to turn the tide of optical formats to their favor (bluray drive).
Then Sony got
better, but Microsoft? To me, Microsoft was king of everything done right in that time. They launched a cheaper console a year before PS3 that eventually proved to be more progressive in the GPU side, had competitive SKUs all the time, good exclusives, best e-store, good PR, unified controller schemes between Xbox and Windows games.. Save for the RROD issue (which Microsoft handled formidably by actually
extending the warranty on their consoles) hat's not to like about the X360?
For the next generation, before the reveal I was really leaning towards the new xbox. I watched the reveal live because I thought it was going to be great.
I was rooting for them to show an evolution to
SmartGlass that would finally become a "Wii U done right", with xbox games being playable on any windows machine in the home network; examples of Illumiroom boosting game experiences and live game demos to assure us that we shouldn't worry about the performance deficit to PS4.
What did we get instead? TV, TV remote gimmicks, TV sports for americans, TV picture-in-picture, TV series, live-action footage as game trailers, pre-rendered trailers, call of duty and a dog.
What further news did we get afterwards? Cockblocked used games, 24-hour mandatory check to see if you're a pirate, region-lock and the console won't turn on if the Kinect isn't connected (oh but
no worries, Microsoft
assures you they won't ever let anyone access it because you can turn it off
through software. Suuure).
So go ahead and call us/me biased. I don't care, I'm perfectly at peace with the reasons why I've shown criticism towards Microsoft.
To be honest, I'm actually wondering why someone would just
accept all this and just keep rooting for the xbone, if not for a strong bias and/or some exaggerated faith over some statement about pouring a lot of money on exclusives.
You really think MS spent $1 billion on games to come up with some live titles?
I won't be mouth-watering over the sight of a guy waving a handful of bills.
As a matter of fact, I think that statement is utter bullshit.
I think it's either a blatant lie (I doubt any outsider will ever have access to microsoft's internal money transfers) or it's just a half-truth, where most of that $1b is money they would have to spend regardless on the salaries, equipment, rent, etc. of their
29 first-party studios worldwide.
Besides, pouring money on a game doesn't necessarily make it a good game either.
Looking at the focus they've shown so far (going after the Wii crowd), get ready to see a good portion of all those exlusives being Kinect games, TV interaction games and other stuff that I (and many others) couldn't care less.
