There's a difference between entering a market and entering the market by dumping.
What are you calling dumping? It's not like the XBox was priced at a severe discount to the PS2. Dumping would be enticing new customers on price alone.
Yeah, you see there is this whole issue of a company losing $4 billion and counting to break into a market where everyone else must turn a profit to survive
So it's ok for Sony (who you can say approaches being a monopoly in some of it's other markets) to do the same to Nintendo? Where was Sony in console gaming before the PS? Or would you prefer that Sony establish a monopoly in the console market? Give me a break, competition between two giants is good for everyone and the industry.
I'd say that the lesson to be learned is that online play really only appeals to a small fraction of console gamers.
You still don't get it. Why are we on Slashdot right now posting these messages? That's right I want to interact with my fellow dotters. I'm not just reading this stuff, I'm interacting with the environment. Same principle with XBox Live and online gaming. Kind of like, not every response to a topic is the same the second time around. Your typical Halo 2 or BF2 match is never the same no matter how many times you've played on a given map. Tell me what single player game you want to play a hundred times over? Or how challenging is the AI of a game after you've discovered it's weakness? Think of it this way, MMORPGs are to RPGs, what Live is to Console gaming. Sony better learn this with the PS3.
I wouldn't say you are a minority. Most RPG's worth playing are PC-based anyway (and even then it's MMORPG's pulling in the millions, not your console-based RPG in Japan). When was the last time you heard about WoW being huge in Japan?
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There's a difference between entering a market and entering the market by dumping.
What are you calling dumping? It's not like the XBox was priced at a severe discount to the PS2. Dumping would be enticing new customers on price alone.
Yeah, you see there is this whole issue of a company losing $4 billion and counting to break into a market where everyone else must turn a profit to survive
So it's ok for Sony (who you can say approaches being a monopoly in some of it's other markets) to do the same to Nintendo? Where was Sony in console gaming before the PS? Or would you prefer that Sony establish a monopoly in the console market? Give me a break, competition between two giants is good for everyone and the industry.
I'd say that the lesson to be learned is that online play really only appeals to a small fraction of console gamers.
You still don't get it. Why are we on Slashdot right now posting these messages? That's right I want to interact with my fellow dotters. I'm not just reading this stuff, I'm interacting with the environment. Same principle with XBox Live and online gaming. Kind of like, not every response to a topic is the same the second time around. Your typical Halo 2 or BF2 match is never the same no matter how many times you've played on a given map. Tell me what single player game you want to play a hundred times over? Or how challenging is the AI of a game after you've discovered it's weakness? Think of it this way, MMORPGs are to RPGs, what Live is to Console gaming. Sony better learn this with the PS3.
Does M$ need a great MMORPG? Sure.
M$ just needs to buy Blizzard and be done with it.
I wouldn't say you are a minority. Most RPG's worth playing are PC-based anyway (and even then it's MMORPG's pulling in the millions, not your console-based RPG in Japan). When was the last time you heard about WoW being huge in Japan?
You must not own an XBox. The hard drive in the XBox allows auto-updates (more commonly referred to as patch updates).