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leo-j on 07 August 2007
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endimion said:
leo-j said:
Legend11 said:

I don't think Microsoft leaving the console business would be a good thing since competition usually pushes companies to do better.

To restore goodwill they need to get systems back to customers very quickly and ensure that people won't have overheating problems. If they get this problem fixed this year it's likely in a year or so it wouldn't be a big issue for potential customers.


I think it would be a great idea for them to leave the console war, the ps1 only went of against the SNES and the games were huge. If it wasnt for microsoft we would be seeing sales like this

ps3=15m

wii=10m

 


 WHAT???? PS1 was going also against the dreamcast... and in term of line up even if it was a small (which mainely was the problem) the average game quality was way over PS1... Sony never diserved their results.... they just got lucky that Sega management was shit and nintendo entered a bad period....

and about MS they have been doing video games way before Sony entered the console war.... and usually really good games... and even now their gaming distribution list is of rather good quality....  but with age of empire, flight simulator, the madness collection.... they were way more in the market than people seem to realise...  without talking about all the pads and joystiq they have been doing for decades now....

if they are loosing money like that it's especially to come hard in the console market.... they will be loosing money until they take over... and I don't see them quitting... on that market you invest billion of dollars over a time periode of at least 20 years.... so it's far from over...   

don't forget that it's still one of the bigest company in the world...  like the USA they might have debt like crazy but it's still nothing compare to their overall value.... they still make a net income of almost 17X what sony does


Yea sure...according to wikipedia

sony is worth more than 68billion since 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony

Microsoft is worth 51 billion since 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

I cant find the 07 sony numbers but I dont think its 17billion lower. Microsoft is a SOFTWARE company, they are not hardware, they should get out of the console race, since they dont know what they are doing when building a console.



 

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