Does 360 deserves its sucess in America?

Almost non existent first party software coupled with an unbelievable hardware failure rate and the fact that you have to pay to play multiplayer, use Netflix instant streaming, and other features offered for free on other platforms makes me lean heavily towards "no".

360 itself is fine, its the American consumer's fault that they kept buying it despite the failure rate, and were willing to pay ofr online features that others offer for free.meetroid8

The "others offer for free" argumentis quite inapplicable. There isn't another service that let users play Xbox 360 games.

Sure, the Wii, PC and PS3 have comparable online capabilities, but differences inthing like those system's price, features and games themselves stops them from being "the same".

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I am shocked this many people responded to this thread or it has not been locked. I read the first post and just thought to myself ok slowly walk away from this idiotic thread. This thread boils down to someone upset their console of choice is in last place after the npd nu,mbers came out.

1Stark1

Seems you shouldve went with your instincts then. Upset? Why would I be upset, PS3 is beating 360 where it matters most games and WW sales. Thats the way it should be as MS has become lazy and just let advertising do the job instead of quality titles.

Microsoft is being lazy? Quite the opposite actually. They have worked hard to pull the Sony fanbase along with Nintendos, which it's seems they are succeeding. It was not just advertising making the sales it is the product.

Almost non existent first party software coupled with an unbelievable hardware failure rate and the fact that you have to pay to play multiplayer, use Netflix instant streaming, and other features offered for free on other platforms makes me lean heavily towards "no".

Sserv

Exclusives aren't as system selling as they used to be.outatime557

Not to mention that the real world couldn't care less about exclusives. Heck, 3rd party exclusives (& probably 2nd party exclusives) are already heading down towards extinction, especially for next gen, due to high development costs & the like. It's the certain games what interests them.

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MS beat the ps3 to the punch: better online service,big name games, lower price, and attracted alot of causals

it doesnt matter whats the best system the only thing that matters to people is:

WHAT THERE FRIENDS ARE PLAYING

thats it, yea the ps3 has a better outlook this year compared to the 360....a way better year to be honest, but people most likely your buds that are non gamers dont even know it

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I give some credit to Sony there brainwashing is extremely effective.

lazerface216

where did you pull that number out of? i can take a guess. i'm calling tom foolery on most of your post anyways...

M$ is expert at creating marketing and hype too bad they are so lousy creating products. NA is more vulnerable to their marketing and hype strategies I think.kuraimen

Just like any fad, if advertised enough in America, people in the US will buy it. It's a disease that has consumed consumerism itself and spit out a defiled and repugnant plague on society.

Look at Justin Bieber, look at Avatar, look at CoD, look at anything that is just a shallow remnant of what could be and what would be if people didn't act like sheep or lemmings and do whatever they are led or told to do. It rakes in the money, and it sells, so therefore, they advertise, therefore they make massive profit.

It will wane though, fads always do, and these things won't be popular for very long, however, just wait for the next big advertised fad to come around, we'll be saying the same thing about that too.

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M$ is expert at creating marketing and hype too bad they are so lousy creating products. NA is more vulnerable to their marketing and hype strategies I think.kuraimen

You oculd say none of the systems deserve their success...

You must pay for online for 360, when it's free elsewhere.

PS3 has ridiculous update times, and some serious hacking problems.

Wii's graphics are way behind everything else.

PC costs a fortune for people who keep up to date.

However, people still buy and use every single one of those systems.

M$ is expert at creating marketing and hype too bad they are so lousy creating products. NA is more vulnerable to their marketing and hype strategies I think.kuraimen

I agree 100%. Microsoft knows, or knew, how to market it.

But it's nothing new, history is full of inferior products that marketed better than superior products - Atari/Colecovision, PC/Amiga, no one should be surprised that Microsoft shoved its console down people's throats, like they did with Windows.

During the Christmas break, it was pretty funny to see how all the media outlets were talking about the Kinect, but barely any mention was made of the Move.

But I blame the consumer, if people get swayed so easily, they get what they deserve.