The anti-MS gaming media still runs wild! "Shipping error"... yeah ok.
Game publishers will get people banned who play a game early too, but when MS does it, they are the evil empire. So out of touch with the average poor gamer who was just sitting innocently as a package was magically delivered to his door early.
I also love the added touch of the "surprise day 1 patch" needed to play! OMG! We had no idea that was coming. Except that MS announced it ages ago. Has this poor gamer gotten over the trauma of having to connect onto this scary network of computers to play some video games?
What media? No one has even had any time to really cover the story. It broke over night and aside from a few outlets with short pieces on it, most won't really get into it until Monday. It is consumer backlash on social media and on messageboards fueling this. And what exactly would MS have to do in order for you to say that THEY made a mistake and they have some culpability here? Is there one?
It was a shipping error. Somehow Target sent out 150 consoles before they were supposed to. Target has some splainin to do not swami. They violated the street date. Clearly it was an error, it was not even a day 1 console. It was a green boxed one.