| bbsin said: how/why did Microsoft end up in this discussion anyway? |
Because that's the easiest way to defend Sony: Start ripping on Microsoft. It's a common tactic around here.
The truth of the matter is that Sony and Microsoft are two very different companies and they do business very differently from each other. (cue the moronic monopoly jokes about Microsoft) Microsoft is now making money per console sold. Sony is not. Microsoft can now afford a real price cut. Sony cannot. Microsoft has the money to look at the long term and see the 360 as a machine that gives them some of Sony's former market share. If they don't have quality issues in the next gen like they did with the 360 at first with the RRoD, they could do even more damage to Sony in the next round of consoles.
What's worse for Sony, like the article says, is that this may force them to keep the PS3 on the market as their main console for a lot longer than they would have (the ten year plan) while the competition is all releasing new machines. The PS3 is probably pretty capable of keeping up with those machines, but it will be looked at as "old" when the next gen of hardware comes out.
