Moore: Microsoft was “completely fixated on Sony”

[DMeisterJ]

CAL4M1TY said:

DMeisterJ said:
of course. Sony was market leader.

That's what led them to launching so early.

They wanted to follow Sony's exact footsteps to insure victory... We see how well that worked out.y

Sony's in last for the first time in over a decade, is that what you meant by how well it worked?

(Yeah I know Nintendo is also to blame, but last is still last)

I was more on the train of releasing the console early knowing it would RRoD, just to be first to launch.  Also buying up exclusives that don't matter GTA IV DLC, Ace combat, etc, that haven't pushed it ahead of PS3.  360 is still riding it's year head start which is why it's still ~5.5 mil ahead of the PS3.  I was also on the train of buyin Japanese support to different effects.  BD and LO did okay, but IU looks to be tankerriffic, which is from S-freakin-E.

It's a mixed bag, and I hope that MS has learned that there is no set strategy to winning a console race, as it always changes, and this generation it was all about t3h cazualz, and not about copy and pasting what went well last generation.  So in the idea that any console maker wants to be in first place, it hasn't worked out too well for Microsoft (Obviously it hasn't worked out well for Sony either, but they're not the discussion topic at hand, that's a whole nother thread).