@ookaze: The idea? No, it makes perfect sense: "don't buy the competitor, wait until we have it". Maybe its targeted mostly for the current 360 owners.
Malstrom put my thoughts (what i've said many times before) into a better understandable form, but that's their strategy. When in PC software business, they are used to be the big guy who controls it all. When someone invents something that could compete M$, they announce they're working on it, which basically means "if you don't drop it, a cheap ripoff of it is the next Windows feature which kills your market" and who can compete that.
In the console business, M$ faced two other big guys as competition, which are hard to compete just with money. Sonys strength is its large number of different electronics and retail channel, which offer synergic advantages and Nintendos is its ability to innovate and make money. Both have advantages over M$.
But when we look at PC software, there's three products, that M$ haven't managed to kill, despite of trying: Google, Firefox and Realplayer. What is interesting, is that the three compete M$ in key areas around the internet, which could possibly make Windows nearly useless (in average PC users homes), only the hardware to run these programs is missing, aside from M$ dominated PC market.
Now, we have Sony and Nintendo from the hardware side.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
