| Squilliam said: So Onimusha you're saying that Nintendo and Sony should just ignore Microsoft, they're no threat and they'll sooner destroy themselves than be a threat to them? |
Not necessaraly.
As Lord N. said. What I'm saying is that Microsoft is only where they are right now because of Sony's mistakes, and they really haven't done too great a job of taking advantage of them as they've only outsold the PS3 by about 3 million units since it launched.
It was only Sony worrying too much about Microsoft as a threat that allow Microsoft to actually become such a threat to Sony. It was Sony's fear of the 360's mutliversitility and power that prompted them to make the PS3 a ludicrously overengineered machine that was too expensive and complex to program for. It was Sony's fear of the Xbox brand's growing influence in the Western market that made them turn the Ps3 into a Western targeted console thus killing their appeal. Blu-Ray was a foolish decision all on Sony's part, though the Ps3 may not have been launched as early as it was (making Blu-Ray as big a problem as it was in 2006) had it not been for the 360.
Certainly Microsoft had targeted Sony, but outside of succesfully creating a multiplatform market, Microsoft has failed in every other way to enact anything by their own efforts to secure this tenuous victory.
That said, it would be foolish to simply ignore any threat no matter the circumstances, but at the same time we shouldn't fear Nintendo making a mistake like Sony did that would allow MS an open door into thier market share, nor should we anticipate Microsoft having any chance of successfully expanding into the family/casual or Eastern markets.
