greater hardware specs. The Xbox 360's long-term plan was online. Will Sony finally get online right this time? I think that's the bigger question mark, for me anyways. PS3's biggest downfall to me was its lack of online support. Sure the single player

Well you have to think about sustaining success. Sony shot themselves in the foot by having PS3 be $100 more than the Xbox at launch and not having any consistent online play. Developers didn't invest much in the PS3 despite the console having much great

I think what Val said was that they are more worried about losing profit than making something good. I am also pissed off that they dropped always online, it affects <5% of people and the features were awesome.

right time to implement it. Reminds me a lot of Sega several, several years ago.

And they did change something here. They went back on a policy they started out with because it makes better business sense and also pleases the community aka the customers more. It's not like what Microsoft is trying to do is bad, it's just not the....

So changing something that the majority of your customers dislike is not listening to the community but is rather a business move to avoid losing more customers? Sounds like they are listening to the community aka their customers.

thinks that they are beating Sony, when Sony never even tried to force these restrictions on gamers in the first place.

They aren't listening to the community. They saw that they screwed up and were afraid of losing customers. They didn't change anything here. Pretty much they said "Everything will stay the same as it currently is on the 360" and suddenly everybody thi

its more to do with the fact that Microsoft has actually listened to the community and changed what its doing

For example: you must have kinect, it is insanely expensive, halo not at launch, focused almost solely on multi-media and television...