Sony's going to try and earn it! Yeah right!

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Originally Posted by MrEastSide

Microsoft wasn't trying to bully anyone if you ask me.

I don't know why so many people are mad at MS for entering the console war. It makes everyone work harder and create better games. Just think if SONY and MS had never gotten into it. We'd all be playing really crappy games on the Wii right now and nothing else.

MS does try to bully everyone unfortunately. If you take a broader look at how they behave in the PC industry, around open standards, Linux etc you will see a very common behaviour of FUD and misinformation. The denial of the 360 problems for over a year now are unfortunately just symptomatic of a deeper issue that comes from a culture based on it's monopoly position.

They are stuck in the pre-web world. That's why companies like Google are killing them in the new world order. It's about a certain amount of trust and MS stock continues to sink badly in that area based on their past and current behaviours. On the 360 alone..

1. What problem? We are within industry standards
2. Then it was things break..but it's still a small problem being fanned by Sony fanbots.
3. And well now we know it's a much bigger problem than they said it was and it was their problem all along - and they knew it.

You just can't build customer relationships like that. Another one?

HDMI isn't needed - buy our premium or core instead of the PS3 because it isn't needed. Sony is trying to snow you about it's value. Then they release the Elite and some games WILL take advantage of HDMI and those premium users and core users are left holding the bag. That's just not the way to treat your customers. Your word just isn't trustworthy.

At some point they will require a HDD for 360 GAME certification and those core users systems won't seem as inexpensive anymore. And before you respond to that .. I said that both of the above would occur long before they happened/became public. Again it's about patterns of behaviour that makes certain actions predictable.

Just like IBM was stuck in a certain mentality before them and had to learn the hard way the world has changed. They still think they can control everything and those days are going despite their best efforts to hold onto it. All the proprietary 360 components are an outcome of the same thinking. Sony used standard HDDs', blutooth, BDA is a broad coalition..they are at least starting to learn that open is better than closed for their customers..in the long term. MS wants to control it all by building in barriers to entry that are not in their customers best interests. And once you taste freedom of choice you don't want the alternative..

And while it sounds like I'm bashing them..I'm actually not..If they would put that money and effort into being more OPEN they would actually be more successful than the path they have taken and continue to take..in the end they DON'T want any competition so they can charge outrageous sums of money...like they do right now for what are essentially commodities - an OS and Word processing. And this isn't just talk..the shift around me to Google mail and Google apps has been astonishing.

Competition is good - problem is once MS has enough clout in any industry - they use their deep pockets to stamp it out - and then release mediocre products to maximize their profits at the expense of consumers. Vista? 360 hardware? The Xbox was BETTER because they didn't even have a toe-hold. You are already seeing the mediocrity starting to seep in..rushing to market to beat Sony instead of building the best product for their customers. HDMI issue was simply part of that.

That's the problem from my perspective.

Again I'm just a messenger. They have a choice to actually behave in a manner that we all win - and that is actually BETTER for their bottom line. So please don't bash me for being some communist, anti-competitive love-child - more transparency is actually BETTER at increasing competition.

Blu-ray vs HD-DVD? Blu-ray is just a better technology. But since they couldn't control it completely they had to support HD-DVD. Predictable. Never in doubt.