I'm all for competition.. Fair competition, that is. If you had read my last post you would see why, in my opinion, I don't think that one of the brands has really played by those rules. You can get away with a lot when you're willing to pump a billion dollars in advertising money into gaming magazines and websites to promote a simple peripheral. This is the same company that is famous for such things as Halloween Documents, Ferrari laptops and one of the few companies on earth that hires anthropologists to help target their marketing. I'm not saying it's not effective. If you want to buy into that kind of thing. What I'm saying is that it doesn't necessarily promote gaming to any hitherto unseen heights of quality and greatness. To take it a step further.. This hasn't been the "Call of Duty" generation for no reason, either.
This is just my opinion.. But I just don't see how people justify their love of the Microsoft XBox this gen. Last gen, I was all about it. I thought MSes focus on making a powerful system was much needed. I thought that they'd be BUILDING more development studios as they became more successful and mainstream. After all, as a gamer, I want games. Good ones, at that. What we have received this generation from them has been very short of what they could deliver us all in the name of trying to turn the profitability of the division up with as LITTLE effort as possible on their part. Effective business strategy? Oh, yes indeed. Five map packs to every game and updates/fixes galore because this setup favors one platform and it's userbase over the others? Yes, effective. But does it benefit the gamer?
No. It doesn't. Quit being a soulless puppet. When you started gaming, you didn't care about any of this unless your older brother/sister tried to instill the virtues of fandom on you. What counts are the games. For me, as a gamer, they took all the goodwill they gained by actually doing everything they said they would do and monetized it early on this generation then crapped all over it.
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