You want to read the truth.
My points were directed at you. If I wanted to talk about the pirates I would have, but I was addressing your lame points.
That's really all I have to say since you require someone else's posts to prop up anything you say.
"if MS "would really go after the pirates" people like you would find some other reason to talk trash about them."
-I'm sorry to have to say this, because I don't know you, but you sound like a butt hurt fanboy looking to demonize people for having a gripe against MS. I shoot down your original post, so you try to shift it to something else?
"You conspiracy theory is laughable."
-How is it a conspiracy th...
What has MS really done against the pirates? Reserved 2 gigs of space on each game for their useless security measures, and waits until the holiday season to ban them so that they'll buy new consoles.
If MS would really go after the pirates, no one would bash them. But they half ass it on purpose so they can get more console sales.
That's harsh. The 360 does have.....
And then there's.....
So yeah.
About as many 360 fans hoping, wishing, and praying for the past 4 years that the PS3 would get hacked so they can save up their allowances to buy a PS3 and then pirate its superior games.
2 can play the moronic fanboy game you know.
bubbles to you as well.
First link. This is where you first go wrong. Firstly, those figures include Sony Vaio's losses for a period of 2 years. Second, the losses are for Sony's Network Products and Services as a whole. So... fail.
Also, funny enough, the Xbox division posted a loss of just over $4 billion, and unlike Sony, it was for their gaming division alone which doesn't include any other products.
Second link. That's on PS3 consoles. The division was already m...
I have to disagree with you.
For starters, when considering Live you have to add that cost onto your ISP cost because without paying for both you can't play games online on the 360. So in your case, you're paying $480 a year.
Second, if Microsoft gave people the option of paying for Live on a monthly basis, you'd probably see a lot of people paying say $15 for 3 months of Live. But they don't. You are forced to pay for the whole year for a ser...
2 people think it's the right thing to do.
1. Easier to navigate, and communicate, and organize a group. With Cross game chat and party chat used as an example over PSN.
-Well, for starters, Cross game chat can't be used as an example for gathering a group, since the premise behind it is that you are talking to someone playing a different game than you are. Maybe it works for setting up FUTURE groups, but can that really be considered? And is that really worth paying extra for when there are things like, oh I don&...
That Bobby Kotick is running Microsoft these days eh? Geez, they're really going for that blood from a stone thing aren't they? Can you imagine someone paying the $60 a year for Live, AND buying the new, largely UNimproved, $65 Xbox controller? Who would be that stupid?
*Looks for GreenRingofLife*
**EDIT** I can imagine a 360 user playing a fighting game like SF and they go to do Vega's Ultra or something and the DPad flips from a plus to a disc,...
They were thinking the same thing they think when the ban consoles around the holidays every year. That people will pay the price for a new console (or Live) if they want their Halo fix. And they will.
It's dirty and underhanded and wrong, but it's good business as long as the Halo/360 sheep keep taking it up the rear tunnel.
Of that episode of The Simpsons where Homer joins the Movementarians.
They go through all these different ways of enticing people to join, and say "you're free to leave whenever you want" but then make it next to impossible for people to be able to. Like in the movie part where anyone who wanted to leave, they were spotlighted and made to feel embarrassed, or when Marge tried to escape and there were all kinds of traps.
Maybe Matt Groening (sp?)...
With the exception of the game, and the blu-ray movie, the rest of those features you mentioned are necessary for the basic function of the product.
If we were to ask the question, what is necessary to play a game online, what would be the answer. It would be A) A game with an online component, and B) an Internet connection. Essentially, Live isn't necessary to play a game online. It is merely a hub, a hub that Microsoft charges you to gain access to. You already have the...
I wasn't aware that describing what Live offers and how much they charge for it was considered trolling. I wasn't aware that facts was trolling.
Ooohhh, I get it. If I was to say that a first time 360 user having to pay at least $120 for a game and the ability to play it online is an awesome thing because they get to pay for PC features that are free on the PC, then I wouldn't be trolling right? Oh ok, I get it now. MS greed is good, not wanting to pay for useless...
Except they don't have the choice though. MS is basically saying this to them.
MS: Do you like to play online?
360 User: Hell yes.
MS: Well it's gonna cost you $60 to use your internet connection to play this game online.
360 User: Wait, so in addition to paying my ISP ____ a month for my internet connection, you're telling me I have to pay $60 plus taxes for my game, and then another $60 a year just to play this ...
You offer up total WW numbers (in which the 360 is obviously ahead since it's been out longer), as well as factor in NA numbers (which is NOT the territory we were discussing) and choose to include numbers from the 360 S as some kind of proof that the PS3 is losing to the 360? I bet you got your numbers from VGChartz too.
It's a known fact that in Europe (excluding the U.K.) and Asia, overall the PS3 is killing the 360 in sales. Way to isolate one month as a prop to y...
Bubbles.
A handheld title.