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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 03:10 PM EDT |
> The new xbox 360 has onerous conditions attached to it.
The new XBox is the XBox One. Is that short for Onerous ?
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| Authored by: cassini2006 on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 03:45 PM EDT |
I think the Xbox One has already lost the next great console race.
At a
certain point, reputation management becomes like "Snakes on a Plane." It is
easy to have a cool title, and generate great buzz in advance of the product
release. However, once the audience sees the goods, it's over.
With Xbox
one, everyone that sees the goods, promptly panics and says "OMG! What are they
thinking!" In the case of Xbox, the issues are:
- It requires a persistent
internet connection, even though people live (or vacation) in places without
internet. Additionally, some parent's don't like kids playing on the internet
by themselves.
- In terms of application programmability, Microsoft clearly
had the better processor last time around. This time, it looks like Sony.
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Microsoft had the first to launch position last time. This time it looks like
Sony.
- Microsoft usually wins the hearts and minds of application
developers. This time it looks like Sony.
- Microsoft usually has the
"cool" factor. Recently, Microsoft's operating systems have not been cool.
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Microsoft doesn't have a portable gaming device. (Still???)
Much of the
above is from semiaccurate.com. But now,
other publications like The Register are badmouthing the Xbox One, too.
Eventually, correct
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 03:52 PM EDT |
Talk about job security!
"We can't be bothered to improve our product, thats costly and takes time.
Instead, here's our expert to tell you why you love it!"[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:04 PM EDT |
Dude, where are your ethics and your
long-term thinking? If you want reddit
to be more reliable than Microsoft,
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| Authored by: bilateralrope on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:10 PM EDT |
Microsoft have really bungled their marketing on the Xbox One. The first bungle
was the choice of name.
The second bungle was the second hand issue. Microsoft promises that used games
will exist on their console. Sony just says that it will be up to publishers.
Everyone attacks MS expecting second hand sales on the PS4 to happen while
forgetting that publishers don't like second hand sales.
Yet Microsoft's marketing team don't give a statement pointing out:
- How many of the complainers use Steam.
- Why publishers don't like second hand sales.
- Sony is promising to do nothing should publishers decide to block second hand
sales.
Microsoft's marketing failures have made this worse for them. However, gamers
are known to fail at the 'not buying the product' part of a boycott:
http://imageshack.us/a/img40/4317/boycottmw2.jpg
So I'd expect the Xbox Ones success to come from which exclusive games it gets.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 04:23 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 07 2013 @ 08:46 PM EDT |
Astroturfing
And for a lot of us, doing such activities is not
admirable.
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