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Chris Hu said:

VAMatt said:

I think the market was ready for something new. Sony was a very powerful brand in electronics. Possibly *the most* powerful brand at that time. Sony entering the business finally settled the matter - video games were serious, mainstream tech, and they weren't gonna go away. That cachet would have been hard to beat, regardless of what Nintendo did.

Yeah, no Sony was never the biggest or most powerful brand in electronics not even in Japan Panasonic is still bigger and so is Hitachi.

Microsoft is bigger and more powerful than any of them, but they barely squeaked into 2nd place with the Xbox, came in 2nd with the 360 only after Kinect, and is going to finish in third place this generation to a system that came out two and a half years after the Xbox One.