- Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:19 pm
#165993
Microsoft isn't justabout money and power. The only way they could achieve money and power is to do what the people want. In the end, it may be about money and power but the process of which they go to earn that also includes listening to the people and catering to the majority's requests. That's just how business works. If you don't care about money and power, then you may as well not start a business.
Microsoft obviously made a mistake in believing the world was ready to switch to digital *snap* like that. But the people responded in saying they were not ready, not yet. So, even if you don't think they did, Microsoft listened, or else nothing would have changed.
Personally, I think it's unfortunate that we'll have to run games off of discs, but I can live with that. Microsoft just needs to take things slow and maybe in the next Xbox, start only selling exclusives digitally and then eventually, all games digitally. That gives people time to make that transition from physical copies to digital copies.
To summarize my view of this whole situation:
Microsoft is ambitious. They want to try new things instead making just another console that does the same thing as the last one but is just more powerful.
However...
Sony is "consumer-smart". They know what people want and they how to cater to that. Why do you think they waited until E3 to actually reveil the console? Because they knew what Microsoft made a mistake on and they knew how people felt about. Therefore, they took advantage of that and catered to people before Microsoft realized "Uh oh, this wasn't a good idea". Also notice PS+. $50 vs $60. This is because everyone knows that $50 is less than $60. Because what they are thinking is "Why not make people pay? As long as its less than Xbox Live, then people will pay because it's a better bargain." It's the little things they do that make it more appealing. It's smart.
tl;dr
Microsoft is ambitious. Sony is "consumer-smart".
-Rick
zach_hytre wrote:Sorry to all of you Xbox fans out there but this is the truth. Microsoft only cares about two things money and power. The added the ideas of making it so you always need internet (every 24 hours), you need a kinect for it to be used, and you cannot use used game for power. The ideas have caused everyone to want to change to PS so they changed their ideas back so they can still have money and some power.If you owned a multi-billion dollar business and you released an idea that the world isn't ready for so they look to a different company, would you really still go along with that plan and lose thousands, possibly millions, of potential buyers to another company?
Microsoft isn't justabout money and power. The only way they could achieve money and power is to do what the people want. In the end, it may be about money and power but the process of which they go to earn that also includes listening to the people and catering to the majority's requests. That's just how business works. If you don't care about money and power, then you may as well not start a business.
Microsoft obviously made a mistake in believing the world was ready to switch to digital *snap* like that. But the people responded in saying they were not ready, not yet. So, even if you don't think they did, Microsoft listened, or else nothing would have changed.
Personally, I think it's unfortunate that we'll have to run games off of discs, but I can live with that. Microsoft just needs to take things slow and maybe in the next Xbox, start only selling exclusives digitally and then eventually, all games digitally. That gives people time to make that transition from physical copies to digital copies.
To summarize my view of this whole situation:
Microsoft is ambitious. They want to try new things instead making just another console that does the same thing as the last one but is just more powerful.
However...
Sony is "consumer-smart". They know what people want and they how to cater to that. Why do you think they waited until E3 to actually reveil the console? Because they knew what Microsoft made a mistake on and they knew how people felt about. Therefore, they took advantage of that and catered to people before Microsoft realized "Uh oh, this wasn't a good idea". Also notice PS+. $50 vs $60. This is because everyone knows that $50 is less than $60. Because what they are thinking is "Why not make people pay? As long as its less than Xbox Live, then people will pay because it's a better bargain." It's the little things they do that make it more appealing. It's smart.
tl;dr
Microsoft is ambitious. Sony is "consumer-smart".
-Rick
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