Microsoft confirms competition is, indeed, really good for the customer!
I mean seriously, holy shit. After these past few months, nobody in video games is allowed to say "complaining about it probably won't matter" ever again.
I even forgot to mention Mass Effect! My God!!
WE'VE ALL GONE MAD WITH POWER!!!
Yeah, pretty much. Complaining has pretty much changed an astounding 75% of MS' plans for this coming generation. I almost expect an "Okay, okay, we're not forcing Kinect on you," post in a month or so at the rate they're backpedaling. And it's all, 100%, because of competition keeping MS honest.
People need to see a clear difference between complaining and a clear lack of pre-order sale numbers. The vocal outburst of negativity, while oftentimes highly exaggerated, was one thing - but the fact that Sony used this to their advantage and gained a very tangible upper hand in sales is most probably what drove them to such drastic changes. This is a very unique situation as the consoles aren't out yet and they can start to measure the success of their system based on how many people opted out of buying it. If this sort of complaining happened in the middle of a console generation it wouldn't have mattered much as the install base would be already there.
This is a good thing for now, but everyone needs to understand that you definitely shouldn't expect the industry to shift gears each time the internet doesn't like something in the future - and more importantly it shouldn't embolden the already quite hyperbolic online masses to whine and complain at every turn as the industry will quickly become insufferable.
Yeah, correlation not causation w/r/t complaints, I think.
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