| bdbdbd said: @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. |
What you say is very interesting.
I think you'll agree with me that if the vaporware XB360 remote has the purpose you describe, that means it would be made to prevent XB360 owners from fleeing to Wii. Which makes no sense if you believe MS PR or snobcore gamers.
The console business shows even more proof of two things I think are facts, on which I base everyone of my predictions, and till now, I have a 90+% record of being right when it comes to predicting MS:
- MS is unable to innovate
- MS is unable to compete
MS has a monopoly in the computer OS realm, and abuses it. Also, they can then throw money at everything around this monopoly, shooting everywhere, hoping to hit some day. Basically, they have no skill and can't innovate.
That's because MS is not a technological company. Everything they do has been stolen or ripped off competitors (yes, even their Windows monopoly, which IBM entirely paid for initially, despite MS keeping every right on it, and IBM made Windows sell instead of Mac).
As MS has no skill, only their money allow them to put even some kind of competition, but when the opponent has good skills, they're just left behind. That's why every single of their foray outside PC OS is a failure.
You're wrong also on the PC software they weren't able to kill. There are at least 3: Google, Free and Open Source Software aka FOSS (Firefox is part of this, as it's Open Source, and this includes Linux) and Apple (Quicktime thanks to the iPod, and MS never could copy Quicktime to match its power, iTunes, Mac OS X, ...).
Nintendo is actually a very small company compared to Sony and MS. Their power is that they're very skilled in the videogame business. If not, they would have been crushed, as both Sony and MS have far more weight and capacity to support such a huge business. Basically, what happened to Sega.
I see that often, people forget how impressive it is for a small company like Nintendo to compete against two behemoth.
