Poll: Is brand loyalty keeping the 360 alive?
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I've had 3. None have ever done a damn thing wrong.
And neither have any of my friend's.
Honestly, As a whole I think the whole Xbox-Malfunction Thing is overblown.
And neither have any of my friend's.
Honestly, As a whole I think the whole Xbox-Malfunction Thing is overblown.
I'm a little confused, why have you had 3 360s if they never did anything wrong?sneak_copter said:
"I respect their loyalty and patience"
Er.. this seems to me to be complete and total flame bait. Thats a loaded answer you have there.. insinuating that as a 360 owner I must be patient with.. er.. their quality? Whatever.. point is.. one of those answers should have read: I think their loyalty is well placed.
I'm a 360 owner.. I also have a Wii. I tried out a PS3 but to me it seemed to be a waste of time as there were only 2 games worth playing out for it (after a year of it being available) and blue ray wasn't particularly exciting to me. Microsoft, on the other hand, has done a decent job of making sure there is a slew of games available that take advantage of the graphics and sound their system can provide. When I go to the games store, there is an entire wall of stuff I would consider playing.. or at least be curious enough to rent. If you go looking for a PS3 game these days you are pretty much out of luck.. Sony has done a piss poor job of making sure its 3rd parties are out there cranking out quality games.
When I went to buy my console I looked at the available titles.. far more on the Xbox360. I looked at the graphics.. PS3 is slightly better at shading and texture in most cases.. but generally I can hardly see the difference. What did the PS3 have.. well it had Blue Ray.. but honestly I find Blue Ray movies far too expensive to buy and there were almost none available for rent.. so nuts to that. PS3 had the 6 axis controller.. but from what I saw.. it wasn't really being put to much use. I went Xbox and i'm generally happy with the decision.
Do I love the new menu interface on the Xbox? No. Do I feel multiplayer is handled well? No. Do I like the box design? No. Did one of the the little bastards red-ring-of-death on me? Yes.. but they fixed it within a week. Do I now have lots of games and reliable hardware to run them on? Yes. And thats all that really matters in the end.
That reminds me.. I also have a Wii. Its good for entertaining at drunken geek parties and my grandma. It fills that niche. Its not a "gaming platform" per say.. its a party toy and shouldn't be reviewed poorly for its lack of stellar next gen graphics. Its successful because its cheap and little kids can play. Most of the games reflect that marketing direction. Good for it. I wish there were more mutiplayer party games worth playing on it.
'Wii Boxing' rocks after about 12 beer. The End.
Er.. this seems to me to be complete and total flame bait. Thats a loaded answer you have there.. insinuating that as a 360 owner I must be patient with.. er.. their quality? Whatever.. point is.. one of those answers should have read: I think their loyalty is well placed.
I'm a 360 owner.. I also have a Wii. I tried out a PS3 but to me it seemed to be a waste of time as there were only 2 games worth playing out for it (after a year of it being available) and blue ray wasn't particularly exciting to me. Microsoft, on the other hand, has done a decent job of making sure there is a slew of games available that take advantage of the graphics and sound their system can provide. When I go to the games store, there is an entire wall of stuff I would consider playing.. or at least be curious enough to rent. If you go looking for a PS3 game these days you are pretty much out of luck.. Sony has done a piss poor job of making sure its 3rd parties are out there cranking out quality games.
When I went to buy my console I looked at the available titles.. far more on the Xbox360. I looked at the graphics.. PS3 is slightly better at shading and texture in most cases.. but generally I can hardly see the difference. What did the PS3 have.. well it had Blue Ray.. but honestly I find Blue Ray movies far too expensive to buy and there were almost none available for rent.. so nuts to that. PS3 had the 6 axis controller.. but from what I saw.. it wasn't really being put to much use. I went Xbox and i'm generally happy with the decision.
Do I love the new menu interface on the Xbox? No. Do I feel multiplayer is handled well? No. Do I like the box design? No. Did one of the the little bastards red-ring-of-death on me? Yes.. but they fixed it within a week. Do I now have lots of games and reliable hardware to run them on? Yes. And thats all that really matters in the end.
That reminds me.. I also have a Wii. Its good for entertaining at drunken geek parties and my grandma. It fills that niche. Its not a "gaming platform" per say.. its a party toy and shouldn't be reviewed poorly for its lack of stellar next gen graphics. Its successful because its cheap and little kids can play. Most of the games reflect that marketing direction. Good for it. I wish there were more mutiplayer party games worth playing on it.
'Wii Boxing' rocks after about 12 beer. The End.
I think it's partly because the 360 has, through a variety of factors, started being considered the console for serious gamers, since the PS3 was released to market later, was priced way too high with significant shortages, and didn't have anywhere near the library of (next-gen) titles that the 360 had at the time (apparently that's mostly not true anymore?). The Wii of course was never serious competition amongst that demographic in the first place.
Of course, that was all just speculation based on observations of the often bizarre antics of those zany console gamers, since I'm a PC gamer. I couldn't care less which one of them is 'the best'; they're all bloody inferior, ha ha!
Of course, that was all just speculation based on observations of the often bizarre antics of those zany console gamers, since I'm a PC gamer. I couldn't care less which one of them is 'the best'; they're all bloody inferior, ha ha!
Well, in my case it was all my friends had one and were talking about the games they were playing on it, Plus then I found out that Tales of Vesperia was going to be on it as an exclusive, along with Star Ocean IV... two game series that I love, and yeah. So when I got $300 for my birthday it seemed like a good idea, especially since the RROD issue has a 3 year warranty on it.
It's now my most played system out of my 360, Wii, PS3, DS, and PSP.
It's now my most played system out of my 360, Wii, PS3, DS, and PSP.
I agree with OP.
Any other group of consumers would've demanded a recall and a permanent fix for the solution.
The hardware problems are the main reason I have a ps3 instead of a 360; that and after calculating all of the extras, I found the ps3 to be cheaper.
But I think the hardware problems tie into why it sells so well: it was rushed to shelves and was the first next gen system out.
So any gamers who didn't want to wait a year bought it.
Early adaptors always get screwed (that includes the first iphone/ps3 consumers paying $500+) but the 360 owners (especially those early ones that broke), really got raped.
And no I'm not a sony fanboy; I actually kind of hate them too; I was a lik-sang consumer. I felt the same way about the ps2 and didn't buy one of those until the slim came out with all the errors fixed. But if you look at that console, it really sold well too. I think it just comes down to the fact that gamers are suckers. Most will pay any price for anything (especially if its "exclusive"), gladly accept the used discount of $2 as the norm, and will even give money to gamestop months before they get the game they're paying for.
Any other group of consumers would've demanded a recall and a permanent fix for the solution.
The hardware problems are the main reason I have a ps3 instead of a 360; that and after calculating all of the extras, I found the ps3 to be cheaper.
But I think the hardware problems tie into why it sells so well: it was rushed to shelves and was the first next gen system out.
So any gamers who didn't want to wait a year bought it.
Early adaptors always get screwed (that includes the first iphone/ps3 consumers paying $500+) but the 360 owners (especially those early ones that broke), really got raped.
And no I'm not a sony fanboy; I actually kind of hate them too; I was a lik-sang consumer. I felt the same way about the ps2 and didn't buy one of those until the slim came out with all the errors fixed. But if you look at that console, it really sold well too. I think it just comes down to the fact that gamers are suckers. Most will pay any price for anything (especially if its "exclusive"), gladly accept the used discount of $2 as the norm, and will even give money to gamestop months before they get the game they're paying for.
Maybe its microsoft proving they can make a good console (when it does decide to work)
besides brand loyalty should really be on sonys side considering the 240+ million playstations sold so far the orginal xbox was never intendid to do anything than sell the next one
besides brand loyalty should really be on sonys side considering the 240+ million playstations sold so far the orginal xbox was never intendid to do anything than sell the next one
I bought my 360 about a year ago when GTAIV came out, pretty much for that, Forza, Fifa and Tiger Woods PGA Tour. I like sports games occasionally and having friends over to the halls to drink and play FIFA or Dynasty Warriors or Forza is fun. Do I play online that often? Not really, I play FIFA against friends and BF1943 when I feel like some 2003 flashbacks. The console was inexpensive (I got it with GTA3 for £200 IIRC), it's small and has a flat top (important when you need space and can use it as a monitor stand), can be output to VGA monitors (although I still haven't found a KVN switch that can hop between DVI and VGA connections without having to resort to keyboard commands) and is reliable (I got one of the later ones that has the improved hardware).
The PS3 was too big and expensive (although one of my friends is the biggest PS3 fanboy I've ever met, and hypes up positively mediocre and shallow games that I've seen time and time again on the PC) and the Wii didnt have GTAIV.
Most importantly my main gaming machine is my PC, and I didn't need a console that was all singing and dancing and had all kinds of super duper graphics technology in it, because I knew that my PC games could blow that fluff away on medium settings. I wanted an inexpensive console I could play sports games with my university friends on, and I think that's a fairly big demographic right there.
The PS3 was too big and expensive (although one of my friends is the biggest PS3 fanboy I've ever met, and hypes up positively mediocre and shallow games that I've seen time and time again on the PC) and the Wii didnt have GTAIV.
Most importantly my main gaming machine is my PC, and I didn't need a console that was all singing and dancing and had all kinds of super duper graphics technology in it, because I knew that my PC games could blow that fluff away on medium settings. I wanted an inexpensive console I could play sports games with my university friends on, and I think that's a fairly big demographic right there.
You can make games on it without being a rocket scientist. The idea of making the PS3 complicated to make games for is just 100 percent retarted, no way else to put it. Why should games suffer and be worse than they could be just so not to 'keep developers from fully using the PS3's power too soon"
Brand loyalty is a PS3 thing.
Microsoft have been good with the warrenty too, it breaks, but they fix it or get you a new one without costing you loads of money. And its flat. That curved top on the PS3 bothers the shit out of me. (Dunno if its a sell breaker/maker though, but still)
Brand loyalty is a PS3 thing.
Microsoft have been good with the warrenty too, it breaks, but they fix it or get you a new one without costing you loads of money. And its flat. That curved top on the PS3 bothers the shit out of me. (Dunno if its a sell breaker/maker though, but still)
Fastly?Cliff_m85 said:
The majority of my friends aren't really "hardcore" gamers, and they have so much disposable income that the PS3 is simply the easier choice. The slower dev time for games doesn't bother them, and they can afford it. I prefer the 360, because I want to play Halo and Fallout and the party system. I was a Nintendo fanboy before I bought my Xbox; Brand loyalty was never a factor.
http://images.starcraftmazter.net/4chan/for_forums/irony.jpgHardRockSamurai said:
Also, good point...
Did Sony really plan that? "Using the PS3's power too soon," did they really say that?Kiutu said: