Che said:
I agree with you and that's why I compared it to GC. Some people here are celebrating for xbox's momentum when the console has sold 1 million more than GC (the worst this gen according to many) which I find pathetic for the console of the 5 billion dollars. I mean if xbox is selling like that now that they're losing all that money on marketing and hardware, how much are they gonna sell if they wanna make a profit?
How quickly people forget, when xbox launched only the hardcore nuts believed it had a chance against nintendo and ps2, and I dont think those nuts in there heart really believed what they were saying. To overtake a company with games like zelda, mario, starfox, metroid, pokemon, etc etc versus MS which was basically nothing but hope and a prayer.
The only reason xbox is where its at is because of its launch title halo, I still remember casuals playing it with me going Wow, this is the next big thing in video games.
Now it got creamed by ps2, but everybody knew that, ps2 had already been out over a year, it was starting to hit its stride. It was coming off a tremendously successful product in the PS, had the most popular game in grand theft auto, gran turismo, final fantasy, metal gear solid 2. How was any brand new console going to compete with sony with odds stacked against them?
MS knew it was going to take a bath in the project, but I think there a forward looking company who can see that sony had the potential to start taking from there PC business with a little box that can do everything. I think they got late into the market, but knew they had to do something.
They got lucky with halo, there prayer was answered, they got there foot in the door. They were still being outdone by nintendo worldwide and getting creamated by sony. This year has been different in the US, if you cant see how well there doing now as compared to 2 years ago then your not paying attention. Look at the monthly npd's now as compared to 2 years ago, the xbox has been performing much better in both hardware and software in the US, the biggest market in the world this generation.
Maybe you really did think that xbox would do better when it was launched, I look at what its competition was and still is and see huge inroads in the increasingly competitive and lucrative video game business. MS didnt come into the same market that sony did with PS, sony was alot better suited to make huge inroads when the PS came out. I think your incredibly harsh and off in thinking what MS has done is pathetic when considering where they came from.
Now nintendo, they have to be scratching there heads.
Sony is the king, but it wont be as easy as last time.