Geez that article was a total mess. "Microsoft bet on the wrong optical format" is as wrong-headed as can be, considering that using Blu-Ray would have bumped the price of the 360 up a few hundred dollars. Turning the Battle of the Exclusives into Halo vs. Metal Gear is silly in and of itself, but even worse for this article is that that battle clearly favors Halo.
As to Home, its "silver bullet" status is something that's more fantasy than reality, at least if we're talking about moving consoles. And since when is Little Big Planet the Next Big Thing? Teh internets knows about it: no one else really does.
The paragraph where the author tries to cherry-pick reasons why the 360's big holiday games won't be all that big (now that we have the $180 Rock Band, karaoke is finished!) just seems desperate. And the sentence where he implies that Microsoft is essentially the Halo Machine might be a widely repeated meme, but that doesn't make it true.
Here's a sentence that really got to me though: "The PlayStation, on the other hand, is damn near rock-solid. Microsoft has to start getting the word out that it has fixed the reliability problems; pretending like this issue never happened is not the solution." Substitute "Microsoft" for "Sony" and "PlayStation" for "PlayStation 2" and you've accurately described the last generation. May I suggest that the author is now officially pulling stuff out of his a**?
Then there's the last paragraph before the conclusion, which was a nice way to cap the article off. Apparently its multi-media capabilities that sell consoles, not games and stuff. Someone needs to tell that to Nintendo ASAP; just think how much more money they could be printing if they followed that mantra!
Ayayay. If you're going to pretend to do some analysis, at least fake going through the motions of objectivity and rational thought...
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