Sure, they may not like the rest of you either, but they must hate me specifically. Why, you ask? Because these do really annoying shit like releasing newer versions of the 360 with better components.
That’s… wow. I mean come on. Sure, they are supposed to fix problems, but at this rate we’ll have 10-15 different versions of the 360 released, all of which game companies will need to be compatible with (changing hardware doesn’t break things ever), all of which I won’t own and all of which will annoy me because they are shipping new versions that they could have shipped originally if they weren’t in such a got damn hurry.
It’s disrespectful and it’s basically telling your customer base to fuck off. “Hope you got a quiet one, jackass!” That’s not even to mention the original version that overheat more or the rumored newer version with HDMI and a smaller (faster?) processor. Back in my day I remember a time when there was one version of the console, or at least, it appeared there was one version.
It’s weird. The console market destroys the PC market, in terms of sales, for one of the very reasons they, and others, are flushing down the drain. Static hardware for at least 4-5 years. As a PC gamer, I’m kinda on the fence about that. On the one hand it means we’ll keep seeing PC ports, because if you have to test for 15 versions of the console, why not test for a bajillion versions of the PC too. On the other hand, as a console gamer, it’s fucking wrong.
What Would Matt Do: I’m going to be nice and calm. I’ll just watch and see what happens. And play a lot of good games on all systems (I’m sure Sony will come up with a reason for me to buy a PS3 eventually). Or maybe I’ll firebomb something. Only time will tell.
Way to overreact, hippie! Console makers revamp their systems and components ALL THE TIME. See: Sony and the PS2.
Matt, Matt, Matt. Virtually every console that was on the market for more than a year has had hardware revisions. Yes, this goes back to the Atari 2600.
Thanks for stating the obvious, gentlemen. But in the past, how as it effected me as an owner of a console? Not at all. None.
Heck, I owned a second generation original XBox and the only difference was that mine didn’t break as easily as the first generations. In this new super console breed, we’re getting newer features and quieter systems.
That’s not the same thing at all.
It could be argued that the newer revisions don’t affect you either. Bigger HD? So what? HDMI? So what? Quieter DVD drive? So what?
You can still play all the games you own, right?
Atari, Nintendo, Sony and Sega have all made major or minor revisions to their consoles over the years, but you’ve always been able to play any games you’ve owned on those revisions.
And that’s really the entire point.
Well, if you want to get super technical, try buying a new PS2 now. If you had the hard drive attachment, the current revision of the PS2 *does not have the capability of hooking up to the hard drive*.
Hope you didn’t play any games that needed it, because the only way to work around that is buying a used PS2 as new ones don’t support it.
Face it, hardware revisions happened in other systems, for various reasons. And yes, they included better and smaller parts. Possibly they reduced noise. Companies can’t always anticipate (or hold out for) better parts. If there weren’t better drives for the 360, should they have waited a year before they could get a Benq drive?
I tend to think that it didn’t affect you in the past because you were oblivious to it; not that it wasn’t happening.
It’s just not a new thing.
Ergo, I see your point. I’m just saying I bought a system that is now being upgraded and sold as the same thing with new capabilities and the only reason I don’t have those capabilities is because I didn’t wait long enough to purchase the system.
Greg, I wasn oblivious to versions of consoles…but in the past it was fixing things, making a more stable system, etc. Now we’re adding features mid stream to a product line…
Sure, it’s not a huge deal and if I want to drop the dough again, I can. That’s fucking great.
It’s a smack in the face to the early adopters (or not so early adopters in my case…I waited a year to purchase a 360).
“Haha sucker, you didn’t wait long to purchase and now you don’t get this spiffy new functionality we’re adding to the hardware. Sorry bitchlips!”