Dear Microsoft,
Because you refuse to resolve the absurd hardware failure rate of the Xbox 360, I'm having to consider purchasing a Sony product when the time comes for my next next-gen console. If you had a business strategy other than short-circuiting your QA department and throwing a billion dollars to build The Red Ring of Death Shuttle for millions of Xbox owners, I wouldn't have to be bracing myself for the eventual likelihood of handing more money over to a company that continually assaults its own customers with rootkits, overinflated prices, and extensive DRM.
The final blow came when my wife and I discovered that Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is also available on Playstation Network. Some may think it silly to re-consider a major console purchase based on a $10 downloadable game, but those people are not familiar with my and my wife's nearly fanatical love of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. We are two of a select few Americans to play the Japanese release of SPF2X for the Sega Dreamcast.
Side note: Region-free gaming ftw. SEGA DON'T FEAR THE REGION, nor do the wind, sun, or the rain. You can be like they are.
In closing, please get your act together and fix your shoddy hardware before this Christmas. Xbox Live is awesome, but I'm not going to shell out $400 for a console that, thanks to statistics and anecdotal evidence, I can expect to ship off for weeks at a time (probably two-thirds of the way through Lost Odyssey, knowing how these things usually work) because you can't QA properly.
I've already had to side with Nintendo after Sega stopped making consoles. Don't make me spend another penny on another Sony product, please.
Sincerely,
Isaiah "Tek7" Jones
Because you refuse to resolve the absurd hardware failure rate of the Xbox 360, I'm having to consider purchasing a Sony product when the time comes for my next next-gen console. If you had a business strategy other than short-circuiting your QA department and throwing a billion dollars to build The Red Ring of Death Shuttle for millions of Xbox owners, I wouldn't have to be bracing myself for the eventual likelihood of handing more money over to a company that continually assaults its own customers with rootkits, overinflated prices, and extensive DRM.
The final blow came when my wife and I discovered that Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is also available on Playstation Network. Some may think it silly to re-consider a major console purchase based on a $10 downloadable game, but those people are not familiar with my and my wife's nearly fanatical love of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. We are two of a select few Americans to play the Japanese release of SPF2X for the Sega Dreamcast.
Side note: Region-free gaming ftw. SEGA DON'T FEAR THE REGION, nor do the wind, sun, or the rain. You can be like they are.
In closing, please get your act together and fix your shoddy hardware before this Christmas. Xbox Live is awesome, but I'm not going to shell out $400 for a console that, thanks to statistics and anecdotal evidence, I can expect to ship off for weeks at a time (probably two-thirds of the way through Lost Odyssey, knowing how these things usually work) because you can't QA properly.
I've already had to side with Nintendo after Sega stopped making consoles. Don't make me spend another penny on another Sony product, please.
Sincerely,
Isaiah "Tek7" Jones