Domicinator said:
They may not, but they can afford it. Sony can't. People seem to forget the dire straits that Sony was in on the whole before the PS3 hype kicked in. The new execs were cutting products left and right and revamping like crazy. I think Sony is in more trouble financially than they let on at the moment. The main problem in the past has been that different divisions of Sony in different parts of the world can't seem to communicate well or agree on how to run the company. That may be fixed now, but the PS3, so far, is another product that they can't seem to make money on. |
Can they really? In the past two years alone, Microsoft's "war chest" has been halved, having lost over $30 billion. They face increasing competition on all fronts, and aside from their OS division none of their ancillaries are really striking pay dirt: search, gaming, Zune, etc. have all been losing rather than gaining money as a whole. Even Internet Explorer is being chipped away, albeit gradually. The simple truth of the matter is that the 90's are over: Microsoft is no longer made of money, and other companies are cheerfully assaulting it on all sides. This is not to say that Micrsoft am d00med or any such nonsense, but you can bet your rear end that they'll be more cautious about how they spend their money from now on.
And on a related note, I believe you're highly overestimating the degree to which Microsoft is devoted to the X-Box. Microsoft could conceivably throw enough resources behind it to guarantee a victory in the console wars. Likewise, the United States could throw enough resources into North Korea to overthrow that regime and unify the country under the South's leadership. But in both cases, the price certainly doesn't appear to be worth it to the folks who make the decisions.
