PixlBit

May be the one game that will entice me into getting a 3DS...

I was always fond of Armed & Dangerous.

Congrats. I'm shambling towards 10,000. The only two games I have all the achievements for are Stacking and Costume Quest.

Your thoughts pretty much mirror mine, Joe.

Holding a grudge because a business made a stupid decision that has since been rescinded due to consumer outcry is silly. Most big businesses will try to get away with whatever they can to make more money. Microsoft got the stuffing kicked out of it by the consumers and decided that that particular business decision was going to cost them big and reversed said business decision before it actually did. I will wait and see which console has fewer hardware issues and better exclusives before I make my choice, if I even buy a next-gen console, which I may not. Depends on the games, and to be honest, not a whole lot has really been wowing me for the last couple of years.

This is a victory for the consumers, in my opinion. I don't think Microsoft realized just how many people were going to vote with their wallets and go over to the competition. Brand loyalty only goes so far, and Microsoft crossed that line and found out the hard way that those decisions were going to cost them big, as well as make them the laughing stock of the industry. My issues with the console have been addressed, I'm not crazy about having Kinect bundled in, but I don't think it is the spy device that some people think it is. I just don't particularly care for the Kinect as a device and I'd rather have a cheaper unit without one, but it's not a deal breaker. Either way, I still don't know if I will bother buying either console. I'll wait and see what software comes out and how many bugs show up in the hardware before I even think about which one to buy.

I think Microsoft may have learned a very important lesson here: people vote with their wallets when they're pissed off. Also, don't make your customers angry, it will come back and bite you in the ass.

Ah, the power of the consumer triumphs!

Let this be a lesson to you: don't drink and shop, lol.

Love the Strike games! My copy of Desert Strike is on my list of missing games :(