| kplee said: I own a PS3 and of course I hope it can have all success. However, according to what Microsoft have done in recent months, I am worried about Sony. I just feel that MS is trying to do what it did in the past to monopolize the gaming market: Copy + Cheap (or even free). Frankly speaking, I don't like MS because it often introduce unfair competitons. A brief historical retrospect: Now it is XBox360 -> PS3. I don't mind if XBox360 is doing well and successful. But it is very unfair to PS3 owners when MS continously use much money to pay for exclusive games, no matter whether timed exclusive or exclusive DLC. As a result, the right games are not developed for the right consoles. And it shows that the success is controlled by how much money a company is able to waste instead of how good are the games and how creative it is doing (this is usual problem of MS). And finally, XBox may destroy PS in one day. It is definitely not a good consequence to gamers. On the other hand, Sony must also do something to compete with MS. According to several feedbacks, the problem of PS3 are mainly the price and number of games. About price, I think cutting the price is not a good solution when the current price reflects its value. Of course more bundles with same price is a good strategy. (The price of XBox360 is decreasing either indicates its value is decreasing or indicating it is selling in price under cost) About games, I think Sony should not hope that the future trend is going to be completely multi-platform. It is not wise as it is not the thought of its competitor. As MS keeps on buying exclusives and paying PS3 exclusives for multi-platform, it will just lead XBox360 to have more and more exclusive games and when people consider which console to buy, they should choose XBox360 because they feel that it is more promising on providing the games they want. Another unwise strategy Sony is doing is to let its exclusive games go multi-platform. e.g. FFVIII and may be MGS4. Of course, MGS4 going multi-platform a year later does not affect the sales of this game for PS3. But the impact is very big in long term. This cause people think: |
360s cost has nothing to do with diminishing value or selling under cost, and much more to do with drop in manufacturing costs, and price saturation, remember its been on the market longer, and gets one price cut a year much like the ps2 set the pase for price cuts before.
for the money hatting as people call it, sony has done this in the past, ms will do it, its just what happens although now it is far better for devs to go multiplat.
unfair comp i can buy in some cases but can also explain
the mac windows thing would never have even become an issue if apple lawyers had paid more attention to licensing agreement for windows 1 based on the mac os.
current os, the two have nothing to do with each other, they arrived at there own looks through separate work, and honestly vista is not as good in my opinion and ms seems to feel the same with the rush put on system 7. msn, never thought it was as big as aim, but then again, my mother used aol back when i first used chat tools... ages ago... god dial up was bad.
the IE/Netscape thing is true back in the 90s, but netscape just kinda gave up in the end.
now i doubt ms will destroy sony, they may beat them this gen and who knows maybe even next, but if you look at computer gaming on the windows platform, thats about as bad as it will get on consoles if ms was all there was, though i doubt nintendo is going anywhere and really want to cede the market sony, and MS are fighting over to them, im sure somewhere in the big Ns tower they have plans to drag us back to them, besideds ups and downs make the market fun and new challengers will come out
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