Comments on: Why MS is Bad for the Gaming Industry

By: Jebril

Jebril — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:30:31 +0000

Also that laggy “Peer to Peer” (it’s not peer to peer BTW it’s a dedicated server run by M$ that rarely lags unlike Sony’s Network) is actually helping small gaming companies, because of it small XBLA titles are allowed to run online without the publisher worrying about putting resources into it because the entire server is run on M$’s money (from XBL $50 charge). With that there is a dedicated server that NEVER crashes, never lags on downloads or games, and keeps the money of publishers in their pockets so they can make better games.

That’s why you get Sega releasing Virtua Tennis and Fighter online on the 360 and no online for PS3.

Research all of this please.

By: Jebril

Jebril — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:26:40 +0000

It sounds like a bunch of 13 yr olds are making these articles up, M$ is keeping their hardware made by themselves so their ruining gaming companies such as SeaGate and Sun!? Those aren’t even gaming companies to begin with……XD

Second Sony is the one that should be ashamed of itself for making it so hard for developers to produce games for it and no major profit turnouts on their games. Cell processors and Blu Ray make sure your development costs are sky high, no help from Sony to the publishers about their complicated new programming language and late dev kits makes sure that games are always getting released months after the 360 release, and a small user base of around 4 mill makes sure that profit is kept to minimum if any.

I think Sony is the one killing the gaming industry.

By: god2

god2 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:14:12 +0000

Live is not a peer to peer service, where do fools come up with this stuff?

By: e-pro

e-pro — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:15:19 +0000

so because microsoft made most of the 360 themselves it means their evil and bad for the gaming community?!?

i always thought having an overpriced gaming system, lack of quality games and and a company with a horrible track record of supporting failed disc formats

honestly though, the only company thats good for the gaming community is nintendo

By: Seraph

Seraph — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:22:54 +0000

I went through 2 Playstations, and 3 Playstation 2s.

Yeah I do remember the disc read error. After the 3rd PS2 succumbed to it I stopped bothering, never bought a replacement.

My friends Xbox lasted from the day he bought it, to the day he got a part exchange for a 360… He bought his Xbox the day they came out.

By: Fatman

Fatman — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:49:16 +0000

there is only one thing that matters if it is proprietary or not, the disc format. so in reality your crappy graphic should say MS- 0/1 Sony- 1/1

Also, you left a bunch of shit out. Where is the GPU? Do the output cables matter more than the Processor?

By: sdf_r_teh_suck

sdf_r_teh_suck — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:29:15 +0000

This is such a bad argument… SONY is the king of crappy proprietary hardware and formats … cmon Atrac, memory stick micro v2, mini disc, UMD , and the list goes on.

By: mmikej24

mmikej24 — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:33:49 +0000

Laggy peer to peer service? Have you even played Xbox Live? The only reason XBL costs 13 cents a day($50 a year)is because it offers a top of the line online service. You will be hard pressed to find anyone in the industry that has anything bad to say abouty XBL, yet it happens so often that XBL is compared to Sony’s online service (whatever its name is) and XBL always wins. It must be because of its laggy peer to peer gaming right? I’m not quite sure why proprietary technology is a bad thing though. Maybe Sony is just bitter because they keep trying to push their new formats (Remember the UMD?) and no one is buying them. lol

By: uberdave

uberdave — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:50:15 +0000

How is this bad for the industry? Propritary stuff has been aroun forever.

Remember when sony intriduced memeory card and forced people to pay 50 dollars on TOP of their original purchase for the priviledge of saving?

By: Gamer Kid

Gamer Kid — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:08:33 +0000

Sorry, SDF, but I’ve had my 360 for nearly two years and it never broke down. To add more gas to the fire, the only thing that pushed my overall 360 pricing above the PS3 was games; with a packed in headset, ethernet cable, HD cables, and harddrive, I got everything I need without having to buy a bunch of add-ons, and to make things even better, I’m given the choice of having a high def player, which I know a certain somebody wasn’t.

Oh, and one more thing:

“but with Sony everything they made survive almost 10 years.”

Maybe on the market lifespan… but a friend of mine went through five PS2s. Disc read error, anyone? In case anybody forgotten, the problem was so bad that there was almost a recall.