Comments on: It’s official, Microsoft hates me.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:29:18 +0000

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!”

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:58:59 +0000

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.

By: Ergo

Ergo — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:51:52 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:42:22 +0000

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.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:34:50 +0000

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.