I don't care if failure rates for Sony products on average were .000001% and MS products were 100%. Or if MS products failure rate was .000001% and Sony products were 100%. All that matters to me is my experience with both products. They are both garbage.
Personal experience =/= actual statistics. I guess it sucks to be you then. My personal experience with Ms is okay to pretty freaking sad. With SONY, it's surprisingly very good. Reliable, great performance and support, and with the PS2 and 3, fantastic games.
And this is why I stick with Playstation. Their developer community produces games with a quality like a fine movie, and it's across a broad spectrum. Media Molecule, Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Kojima Productions, Guerilla Games, Polyphony Digital and so on. These guys go out of their way to provide a gaming experience, to produce a game that they would want to play. They spend the extra effort to mine all kinds of extra resources from the Cell and put them to work, and support each other to get the most out of the PS3.
MS has Turn 10 and Epic, to an extent. They don't even have Bungie anymore. Their exclusives are like PC games, which I'm not impressed with. The best thing you can say about the 360 is MS spends a lot of money to buy multiplats. Which is why I still have one 360 game after two years.
The Playstation is also supported for more than a decade. The PS1 wasn't just supported for a decade, it was
in production for eleven years! The PS2 is in it's ninth year and still going strong, and the library is incredible. I doubt I'll ever stop buying games for it because so many of them are so good. When people laughed at Kaz Hirai saying they'd be supporting the PS3 for ten years, they showed they didn't know a thing about Playstation history.
The XBoxes are made with a PC philosophy from a PC company. The XBox was four years and done, and I expect something similar to the poorly thought out 360 with its old technology and costly proprietary nonsense.
Which brings me back to Turn 10. They know they're up against a company which doesn't just chase the almighty money. Kazunori actually cares, and his games show it. T10 have their fanbase, but the whole world reacts to news about a new Gran Turismo like it's a Peter Gabriel album or Bond movie. Every tidbit of news about GT5 causes ripples around the internet world, and they're painfully aware of this. They could act classy, like start-ups which blatantly tried to copy their way into a hunk of the market but admit who is the real deal. But Microsoft just doesn't have much class.
