Gaming Systems

Why Is There So Much Hate at Microsoft in the Gaming Industry (and by Sony Fans)?

Now I love the 360 (obviously), and I love the PS3. But people talk badly about how Microsoft must have paid companies to bring originally Playstation exclusives to the 360. So what. Sony did the same thing several years ago and don't you deny it. Obviously in order to get big in the gaming indusdtry you need to do stuff like this. It is not like Sony is a saint and everything should be on Sony only. Same thing for Microsoft. Both have their exclusives (first party mostly). Sony paid a ton of money for exclusives (or games originally meant for their console. You want one example. Ok. Megaman 8. When it originally was gonna be exclusive to the Saturn they whined about it and said its not fair, and that it would give Sega and edge over it. So Why Is There So Much Hate at Microsoft in the Gaming Industry (and by Sony Fans) and Not Much Hate Towards Sony???

Reasons for the "Microsoft hate" come in spades. One main reason for the dislike of Microsoft is their unrelenting march towards profits. Now it is understood that money is what makes the world go around, but Microsoft has cut many corners and employed many "wrong" tactics to reach this goal. One such example is the shoddy engineering of the Xbox 360. The recent Game Informer survey said that out of 5k people researched, %54.2 of 360s broke. Another main reason for hatred towards Microsoft is their seeming disinterest towards customers, as many have complained about after their 360s breaking (going back to the GI survey, only %37.7 of the people surveyed found MS customer service helpful). Finally, Microsoft's hoovering up of exclusives is well known, and GTA4 was a prime example of this (MS paid $25 million for each DLC pack......only the dlc packs). Jason is also right in his reasoning, so I have no need to go into that reasoning.

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