Do you think MS would listen to an "outsider" conc

[Wavelflack]

...console design?

I have some ideas that I believe would be hugely beneficial to both consumers and the games industry as a whole (except certain subsections), but would they even get attention, or would they be "unsolicited ideas" and purposely ignored?

I'm not talking about making it backwards compatible with everything, or built in emulation, or any of the other hundreds of unrealistic wishful thoughts typically listed when people talk about the "ultimate console".

Just a few ideas that have either not come up, or have not been acted on for some reason.


How do you think a company like MS would react to an unsolicited bit of advice?

[Captain Wrong]

How do you think a company like MS would react to an unsolicited bit of advice?

For legal reasons, I think almost all companies file unsolicitated suggestions in the circular file. It's something to do with if you give them an idea and they use it, they don't want to be sued or anything like that so it's easier for them to only get ideas they've paid for in advance. Doesn't do much for innovation, but keeps them out of court.

[Logicdustbin]

Well.....

I remember, before the system launched, that they claimed to have gotten the average gamers opinion when designing the controllers, we know how well that turned out;

cord length = good.

big honk'n piece 'O plastic that would kill your family, if someone should happen to drop it on your house = bad.


Makes you kinda wonder if they would actually listen.

[CartCollector]

Read this (http://www.sloperama.com/advice/lesson11.html). The guy who wrote this (Tom Sloper) has been making video games from 1979 to this day, so he knows what he's saying.