*WHINE* the Xbox 360 sucks!
So I read something this afternoon that just pissed me off. James Rivington [submitted an article] to TechRadar.com with a different view (vue?) on the Xbox 360 sales press release that Microsoft posted a little while ago.
The press release from Microsoft UK stats:
“Gamers have voted with their wallets, and the results are in. The Xbox 360 version of ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ has sold more than 100,000 copies, or 20 per cent more than the PlayStation 3 version in the UK since the game’s release last Tuesday 29 April.”
The article is filled with negative wording like:
- “Microsoft is attempting to use GTA as a PR exercise to boast (and lie) about the Xbox 360 console”
- “We received an unbelievable and outrageous press release today from Microsoft UK”
- “Lies, all lies!”
- “The release then sees Microsoft rambling on and on, mostly just patting itself on the back about selling more copies”
- “Please excuse me briefly while I pause to be sick.”
- “It’s all a load of smoke and mirrors nonsense.”
- “This is an absolutely textbook example of a big company spouting a load of dingo’s kidneys in order to promote itself.”
Sorry, man, you come across like a fanboy pulling crap like that, and I expect more from TechRadar then to listen to fanboy rant.
You can prove anything you want with statistics. It’s all load of ‘Dog Kidneys’
Besides that all the numbers are skewed because no one tracks the number of units out the door of a store (IE the number really BOUGHT.. not given away or promos and such). It’s the number of units shipped from the publisher. So there’s no way to tell really HOW many PS3’s or 360’s are really out in the market.. let alone how many games have really been sold.
The only thing those numbers really show is that the PS3 version and 360 are both selling well, and Rockstar is making a killing.
Beyond that, we’re all used to that kind of marketing. It’s the same crap that Sony has been pulling all along with the PS3. But it doesn’t matter, the PS3 has RIDGE RACER!!!!!!!!
Well it doesn’t matter how many they sold on the xbox becouse its just going to make their systems crash and make the fan boys cry some more
Comment by imdoink | July 14, 2008
I m with you.I had enough hearing ppl talking shit on how good the 360 is.So what?If they(360)can do what they did,so does the PS3.The only thing is,Sony didn’t want to make up for any kind of games that had been the targeted for every lousy fanboys out there only..I m sure it’s gonna be cool one day for the PS3.
Comment by Muramasa_sama | July 15, 2008
ImDoink:
Like the PS3 hasn’t been known to crash? Even none fan-boys are gonna cry when you get a RRoD.
Muramasa_Sama:
Because the 360 is a good machine, and some of the PS3 technology was ’stolen’ from the Wii (6-axis) and the 360 (Trophies, LIVE, etc)
the Problem Sony has is the lack of good games and support. Fallout 3.. coming to both the 360 and the PS3, but the 360 is to get extra content. Final Fantasy 13, which was a ps3 only title is now coming to the 360 as well.
and you said it all.. “I m sure it’s gonna be cool one day for the PS3″ the PS3 was released 11/11/06.. it should have BEEN cool by now.
Comment by pogowolf | July 15, 2008
Xbox has the money and easier system to develop for but can’t handle graphic intensive games I have one I know while my ps3 I can play for hours on end without worrying about a sys crash do I care final fantasy xiii will be on xbox no but it does prove that they are riping off the other systems like the wii for those stupid miis money talks but xbox is still fun but in my opinion the ps3 is funer more reliable and still is growing i wish the systems corporate pigs would stop fighting each other and worry about original games for both sys
Comment by imdoink | July 16, 2008
ImDoink
The XBox can’t handle graphics intensive games? Give me one game that looks better on the PS3 than on the XBox. (must be on both systems), and if you can’t play for hours on your 360 I would suggest you look into a extra fan or re-check the airflow around your machine. After I replaced my first one (RRoD) I’ve been able to play Mass Effect for hours and not have a problem (and it was the game that killed my first one.
No Final Fantasy doesn’t prove MS is ripping off Sony. The 1st party support is. the 6-axis was a direct rip off the Wii’s controller. Sony has taken quite a few ideas from LIVE for PSN, now both companys are making ‘motion’ types of hardware because of the Wii. M$ is coming out with Avatars.. and that whole idea smells of Mii’s, and I’m willing to bet that Sony will follow suit sometime in the next 6 months.
I can’t think of a game that’s more fun on the PS3 than on the 360, or a title for the PS3 that makes me go ‘Oh god yes!’ I need to buy that. Personally I think the only reason the PS3 is still growning as a market is because it’s a cheap Blu-Ray player that also happends to play games. However, the community as a whole still belives that DVD’s are just as good. Mostly because they don’t have the cash for a new TV and sound system to take advantage of the Blu-Ray.
as for the orginal games, there hasn’t been a orginal game pretty much since Tetris. the pigs are always going to fight each other over your money. it’s the nature of the game. =)
Comment by pogowolf | July 16, 2008