Lets be real, none of this stuff 9 months before the release will really affect sales of either. This stuff only matters in fanboy wars. Both will sell out before Christmas and eventually most hardcore gamers will end up with both anyway. The winner this Christmas will be decided by whoever can manufacture more units. And beyond Christmas tweets from an ex Microsoft employee from march 2013 will not even be in the consciousness of consumers.
You have a disconnect in your logic here. The only people who could be effected by false "negative" rumors are those who are not very informed consumers. The problem is, those types of consumers don't care or even know an Xbox exists until commercials start coming on. None of this stuff that happens 9 months before release will effect this type of consumer.No one wants to lose ANY sales. And you're kidding yourself if this along with all of the other negative press so far hasn't affected things at all. How much? Who knows. But none?
Correction: They shouldn't be playing the new XBox
I got friends who aren't hard core gamers and just play Madden & NBA2k and have no interest in playing people online or all them other features.
You can shyt on people who don't have the interent all you want. But REQUIRING someone to be connected to the internet anytime they want to play a console they have paid more $300 for is a terrible move.
And then you gonna charge them again for XBox live to actually play online and use the feature like Netflix that they already pay a fee for?
But I honestly hope this isn't true though
No one wants to lose ANY sales. And you're kidding yourself if this along with all of the other negative press so far hasn't affected things at all. How much? Who knows. But none?
