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Originally posted by: Maverick If they keep up the same level of quality next generation I'm all for them being number one. Of course I'm all for Nintendo or Sony surpassing MS in quality/content next generation as well. Whoever comes in first, I win.
Such is sadly not the case.
Microsoft will only attempt to meet the needs of its customers if its customers have another choice in the market. Let me use a colorful analogy which applies to this situation: if Microsoft were a woman, she'd be the best thing that ever happened to you so long as you never got married (aka. she knew you had no other choice aside from her). Once you tie the knot, it's already too late: she owns half of your crap now and she can leverage that against you instead of bothering to try to make you happy.
Such is the case with Microsoft's abysmal performance in the OS market.
There's a thread in the other systems board about how much of a total piece of sh*t Vista (the next iteration of windows) is and how MS is forcing people to use it by imposing it as the new standard, despite the fact that it makes it so you require an exceptionally powerful computer just to meet the BARE minimum Vista requirements. A friend of mine tried installing a developer version on his 3 GHz machine with 1.5 GB RAM and even IT was chugging along at a horrible speed.
The point is, since MS owns the OS market with an iron fist, they've been shipping buggy, resource-hogging, security hole-ridden software and made it blatantly clear that they just DON'T care because they know windows is the accepted industry standard. They KNOW they don't have to keep up appearances so they let their true nature show.
And just what is MS's true nature? Imagine being married to a 350 lbs woman who yells at you every time you try to do anything for yourself, never exercises, seldom bathes and sees it fit to spend YOUR money on things for herself because she knows you don't have a choice. Getting a divorce (aka. switching to a Mac) is so much more difficult that you'd rather not rock the boat and just decide to endure the suffering.
The Xbox 360 is Windows' twin sister, except that the Xbox understands that you still might prefer that sexy little Asian thing, Wii, so she'll have to do as much as she can to earn your attention away from Wii and hope Wii gives up and leaves, at which point the Xbox can let herself go just like her sister Windows did.
That, in a nutshell, is why Microsoft ruling the gaming industry would be a raging disaster for every gamer alive. She's all smiles, attention and sex when she knows you could still look elsewhere, but the minute she knows she owns you, she'll go head-first into the bon-bons and
never look back.
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