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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ozzpot" data-source="post: 16879" data-attributes="member: 449">I hear you Rafie, and thanks for taking the time and effort just to reply to me, but I need to make it clear, if not to you, then to the other readers that I am no fanboy. I have owned almost every console over the years, including the PS3. The 25 year old me would indeed still have every console out there and every game too but I don't earn US$5,000/hr like I once did and the impoverished 33 year old me has to make a decision on which platform to concentrate on. On a par generally they may be but they also have traits which makes them better suited to certain people. As a hardcore gamer, someone who enjoys shooters, racers and sports games, someone who likes to play online with my friends, and enjoy prolonged gaming sessions, 10 hours plus quite often, I have to choose the 360. It has a far more evolved, better designed, ergonomic, award winning controller, not a 15 year old design with modern functionality shoehorned in. It has better online functionality, even if you do have to pay for it, and it has more of the kind of games I like to play. I'm straining to not sound like a fanboy, lol, but that's what I think.In another life I would've sided with the PS3. Perhaps if I were into Blu-rays more. Perhaps if I liked JRPGs more. Perhaps if GT5 had lived up to it's billing, and not been edged by Forza 3, and then soundly beaten by Forza 4. But 1). I'm not, 2). I don't, 3). It didn't. The point I am struggling to make is, while acknowledging that many people have, play and love multiple consoles without bias (your medal is in the mail), most people focus on a single platform, and made the choice we did for a reason. There may be very valid reasons for "switching" from one to the other, right at the end of this console generation. Let's say the price of Xbox Live dramatically increased, or the PSN took another 2 week break while everyone's personal data got stolen, something like that. A bit of pinball DLC being delayed is no reason. It's a childish, petulant, knee-jerk reaction. And you know, the grass isn't necessarily greener. I know you say you haven't experienced the flipper lag but many, many people on these forums complain about it and cite it as their reason for switching focus to the Xbox version.What I don't understand about all the vitriol is how people can be so damned impatient. I've already made the point that TPA didn't even exist a few months ago, and now it's like people can't live without it. We're talking about virtual pinball tables, not crack cocaine. Everyone on here boasts about playing pinball since way back in the day, so I have to assume we are grown adults, not spoilt little brats. And that's to say nothing of those spitting poison at Microsoft. I'm not playing devils advocate here. I know for a fact that everyone suffers through Microsoft's gruelling certification process. The smaller the developer, the tougher it is. And that's not because Microsoft is a bully. It's just that smaller, more naïve developers don't have the experience or the resources to test everything so thoroughly before sending it off to MS, and they pay the price.I'm confident that FarSight will iron out the bugs and learn from this quickly and we'll get our DLC and not suffer such delays again. Hopefully those of us who have not thrown ALL the toys out of the pram by then and dismissed the Xbox 360 as "a lost cause" or "dead" or any other such ludicrous adjective will quickly forget these delays and start enjoying the beautiful new tables the best way possible, which is on their native platform, the 360.</blockquote>

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