Every American on this forum should be cheering for MS and the 360 to win this gen and every gen there after. The reason why is simple, Microsoft is an American company. Sony and Nintendo are both based out of Japan. We are in the middle of a world wide recession and if you want your parents to have jobs and pay for your internet you should be rooting for any company that is based out of the USA.

Before you make the arguement that "they are all made in Taiwan or China anyways"you need to understand something about the ecconomy. When a company is headquartered out of the US (or any other country) then the majority of the revenue ends up in this country. Steve Balmer, for example,the current CEO of MS made 1.35 million last year and that's actually a pretty low paid CEO. All the top executives and even the middle managment make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year if not millions. A well paid factory worker in Taiwan will make $5800 dollars a year. That means that 232 people in Taiwan could live off what Steve Balmer makes alone. The majoirty of the money that those MS execs make is then spent in the US and gets circulated to other people in the US.

Firelore29

Yeah but the key is as you said, its a worldwide recession. We should be rooting for every company to succeed cuz its we're all part of the global economy. Besides, Sony and Nintendo employs a lot of US citizens anyways.

who cares about this kind of stuff really? Why can't we just stick to games on this forum and leave the sales discussions to the stockholders.

Yeah the year headstart was a factor but not the sole reason. I think it was the price more than anything else. It might still be the problem. We'll know for sure when GT5 comes out and if there is a price drop.

its makes sense now that games have been around so long they'd start remaking good old ones like they do movies. I just don't want it to snowball into every game from the past 20 years getting remade cuz if FF7 gets remade and makes a bunch of money and then you know everything else will.

I feel sorry for people who bought the PS3 day one. No backward compatibility, 40 GB, and $600 price tag. What a joke.

2-10-08