Analysis: Microsoft’s Plan to Ban 360s was Poorly Planned
I was at GameStop the other day and listened to a customer’s questions about Microsoft’s banning of modded XBox 360s. The worker tried to explain that this banning was for those people that hacked their XBox 360. The customer was worried that if her child downloaded any kind of content through the XBox 360 that this might constitute a reason for a banning for her son’s system. She was confused, so she decided to purchase a PS3 instead. I was told by the manager at that GameStop that this was not an isolated incident. They had received over 50 calls that day about the banning.
What Microsoft appears to have forgotten by earmarking this time of year for the banning of modded XBox 360s is that most of the systems that are purchased this time of year is by parents and grandparents. The game systems that are purchased this time of year are usually done by those that do not have a firm grasp on the industry. Simply put, the systems are usually purchased by people that are fairly clueless about video games.
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