Oh I understand why & I don't necessarily blame you guys. I was just trying to say that the heavy Playstation bias in this forum can't be denied.
I'm really not sure what the whole point is about bringing up a bias. To me it seems the word
bias is being used to explain a certain favoritism. If Xbox polls are bad, it must mean it's because this board favors the PlayStation, undeniable bias! Of course.
We're not kids here. To a large degree, I think this forum has proven to have a large majority of members who are intelligent and civilized enough to be here to talk in a constructive manner. If polls are favoring a certain console, it doesn't necessarely have to be bias but can be quite simply just preference.
Most of us are simple minded consumers with finite money. For most of us it boils down to a choice, because we can't afford, or don't want to get both. Some of us have the money to get both, but might not because we have limited room or we don't want to change around our livingroom to accomondate both. Some of us simply have too little time to focus on the offerings of two consoles (let alone 3), so yes, in the end, most of us make a choice.
Some of us have been happy PlayStation users since the PSone days and for those of us, the choice of getting a PS4 is easy. Why should we change? We're used to the gaming experience, we're used to the controller - and the PS4 doesn't deviate much from what we had in the past. Moving on to the next one is just a logical choice. Is that bias? Not necessarely. We don't want Xbox to fail - in fact, there are heaps of members here from the other side of the pond who started on Xbox one and are happy to see the new direction Xbox One will take them.
Just because some of us take enjoyment out of analyzing the market and the choices both these console manufacturers have made, does not make us biased.
And I take offense if people make it out to be as such. The people who are yet and yet again whinging about bias come across as in denial to me. Perhaps it's time to realize that there's more to the average consumer than bias and that there are some here, as seen by the poll results, who are not happy with the direction Microsoft is taking them. That hasn't got anything to do with bias, nor has it got anything to do with bias that some of us are actively engaging in discussions about it - regardless if we are PS3 or X360 owners.
If we look at the poll - the interesting results are not the people like me, who are progressing from the PS3 to the PS4 - or the members who will be progressing from X360 to Xbox One. The interesting point are those who are changing from a PS3 to a Xbox One and those will change from the X360 to a PS4. And these decisions likely boil down to differing business strategies. And this is the interesting aspect - and these transitions have absolutely nothing to do with bias, but with the reasons we have been discussion since weeks here on this forum: DRM, hardware trade-offs, different business direction.
