| Impulsivity said: "Microsoft to play, we truly believe in Xbox as being something that can… there was a little bit of a concern with Sony – we wanted to keep them out of the living room, from a software and services perspective. And then I started work at Microsoft on February 1 2003." Haha just saw that while reading the rest of the interview, EXACTLY what I thought. Whoever says Microsoft is some kind of agent of consumer choice is kidding themselves. They're in it to REMOVE choice not to add to it. |
You didn't already know this? The motive for their entering the console market has been known since the original Xbox was made public.
As to your comments on Nintendo in the previous post: Nintendo is a game company. They have and will continue to innovate in that market be it with their software or hardware (interfaces in particular). Bringing a swiss army knife to the entertainment center that also happens to play games and bringing more and faster integrated circuits into the mix is not innovation, but instead the continuous evolution that fabrication and manufacturing afford us as their means improve over time.
It's all about what you value in the end. This being a video game site and these foremost game consoles, you can guess what it is I value when I look at these devices. It sure isn't whether the machine allows me to watch my video library.
