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"edgeofblade ~ PS3 copied Xbox Live Achievements..."
Wrong. Look into a game from the PS2 called Spyro ~ Sony and Insomniac invented Skill Points all the way back in 1998:
http://guidesarchive.ign.co... So in reality Microsoft copied Sony's Skill Points and renamed them 'Acheivements'...IF you want "talk & act" like you are properly informed.
"edgeofblade ~ and they even did it poorly and 5they failed to. Meanwhile, Achievements still ranks as one of the top reasons to choose a multiplatform game for 360 over PS3."
Sounds like a personal opinion to me which is definitely not fact. People don't base their final deciding factor for purchasing a game off of achievements/trophies, if it came down to that then they are simply misinformed (especially when all PS3 games have had trophies for quite some time now). Either way, the trophy structure in my opinion shows the greater difficulty in leveling up and a better reward for the gamer when completed. But that is just an opinion. Not a fact of why people "choose a multiplatform game for 360 over PS3"
"edgeofblade ~ "and HD-DVD failed because 360 gamers didn't buy into microsoft's sh!t that it was better than bluray."
^ that is one of the biggest misconceptions about the format war... and the biggest sign you are just a Sony mouthpiece. And worse, a misinformed one. Blu-ray was Sony's technology. HDDVD did not belong to Microsoft in the same way. They were positioned COMPLETELY differently."
I would say you are partially wrong here because if you want to talk misinformation then look no further than your own words right there because Blu-ray is not "Sony's Technology" BD is made up of 20 DIFFERENT companies combined to create the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association)and the Blu-ray disc technology
Wiki ~
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... Apple, Inc.
Dell, Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Company
Hitachi, Ltd.
Intel Corporation
LG Electronics Inc.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Panasonic Corporation
Philips Consumer Electronics
Pioneer Corporation
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
TDK Corporation
Thomson S.A.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
The Walt Disney Studios
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
"edgeofblade ~ Microsoft was not in a position to leverage HDDVD in the same way"
Wrong again. MS didn't want EITHER technology to win because
a) they only wanted to screw Sony ~
http://www.ipodobserver.com... b) it would force skipping physical media & people into Digital Downloads and
c) they were not the makers of it (BD or HDDVD). The latter meant they would hold no leverage and not be able to receive all/most of the profits.
Additionally the BDA wanted
"Blu-ray to use a Java-based platform for interactivity (BD-J based on Sun Microsystem's Java TV standards), while HD DVD companies wanted to use Microsoft's "iHD" (which became HDi)."
Wiki ~
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... Which MS wouldn't support because Sun is a competing company which MS has ALWAYS had issue with.
Lastly I have also read (but cannot find the link right now so I will throw this up as hearsay but interesting nonetheless) that HDDVD had the support/backing and some sort of technology based on/in/using/partially Linux of which MS would NEVER fully support since it is a direct competitor of their OS.
Your opinion may differ from mine and others but at least ours is based in fact. That is the difference.
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