landguy1 said:
mantlepiecek said:
MS wanted to gain market share from Sony and they got it, but they had to ship broken consoles to achieve it.
In the end, I would say the one who actually won is Sony because they are not only catching up to MS, they are not going to ignore their fanbase in the process(original xbox anyone? RROD anyone? Kinect anyone?), and they are still only $299 price range. AND even then, they are catching up, reducing the gap with each quarter.
You can almost say goodbye to xbox 360 support if it ends up being in the third place. Same thing can't and won't be said about the PS3, because its in 3rd place and its doing mighty good for a 3rd place console. It hasn't even reached $199, when it does you can expect Sony to go above the second position permanent.
Wii is the only system that took real market share from Sony, not MS. 2.88 million difference with a $100 price difference and 1 year headstart....
Tough competition indeed.
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You definitely show your Sony pride!!
Too bad your passion for Sony seems to make your somewhat valid point sound silly. So, in your world, if the PS3 beats the 360 by 5-10 miilion, there wiil not be any suppport for microsofts consoles in the future? Just the opposite, it shows the software developers that they shouldn't put so much faith in supporting just one cosole, but all of them.
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Hmm...I don't like Sony as much as you think. If Sony did what MS did this gen I would have hated them as well. Its the act that counts, not the name. Its one of the reasons I don't dislike nintendo (I actually like their staff cause they are quite down to earth compared to Sony and MS.) even though I don't own a single nintendo console.
360 will have support, but not from MS, but from 3rd party. I don't think they will stop selling the 360 like the original xbox though.
