Kaulen Fuhs said:
Sonic Doctor said:
If a person is truly interested and wants to get something, they will do what they have to do to get it.
Obviously, but there is a difference between someone who wants an Xbox
and an HD TV, and someone who just wants an Xbox. It is foolish to cater to only one of these demographics, especially when you won't be profitting from the sale of HD TV's.
Really, it is the same as the exiting generation, yes people could play their 360s on an SDTV, but in doing so the games looked like shit in comparison to playing on an HDTV.
I used an SDTV for almost the first full year I had my 360. I could see a huge difference from when I played on my TV compared to when my friends played on their HDTVs.
Sometimes it really hindered my paying. Take Dead Rising for example, I could not read the text instructions, for the life of me, that the system tried having my 27 inch SDTV project.
Did I think it sucked that I had to save a large amount of money to get an HDTV so I could play my games in the proper manner they were designed for? Yes.
Did I get mad and Microsoft for moving forward with technology and making it hard for me to play games to where they looked right because I wasn't using the right TV? No, because I know that is what happens with technology. When technology reaches a certain level, the basic tech items that we use everyday will eventually incorporate it and move forward.
When Microsoft released the 360, HDTV was out of it's infancy/childhood, it was now in the middle, a teenager. That is why they made it an HD system, thought they still some SD comparability because HDTVs weren't quite the majority yet.
Now Microsoft knows that HDTV has entered it's adult stage, it actually reached that around four years ago. As the statistics have been pointed out in this thread, the US(Microsoft's main consumer base/demographic) has got with the times and 70%, so far over majority have moved on to HDTVs. It's also quite obvious that a large part of the 30% with SD TVs are elderly people that don't game. Basically at this point it is counter productive to take the time and spend the money to add pretty much ancient tech(during this day and age) compatibility, which would make the console more expensive at launch. From a successful business stand point, making the Xbox One SDTV compatible would have been a stupid move, because the work around and cost wouldn't be worth it with so few gamers that actually still are living in the past. The cost out ways the gain from SD user sales.
SD is gone, it is far far from mainstream. No normal retail store sells SDTVs anymore, you have to go to some kind of old world specialty store/antique mall, refurbisher(if you can find one that still does it, because at least in my area all the TV refurbishers stopped working on SDTVs around three years ago), or on E-Bay.
It doesn't matter that these people feel there is no reason to move on from SDTVs. There was no reason for Microsoft to consider them. The vast majority of society has moved on. People that have SDTVs literally are living in the past. Heck to even watch TV with SDTVs, you pretty much are running them on life support with HD to SD converters, and that happened years ago.
These people complaining need to just face facts, the rest of society has moved on, and the businesses that make products aimed at them have as well, and they are not going to look back at the stragglers, because they will be left behind and lose out to other companies if they do.
I see such complainers say, "Well I guess Microsoft doesn't want my money". Well, yeah, they don't want your money, it isn't enough to make the effort to stay occasionally dip their toes in the muddy waters of the past.
Face it SDTV users. You are basically people riding/driving horse drawn wagons, yelling at society and saying I don't need to buy one of your crazy horseless mechanical monstrosities.
