Will Microsoft target Nintendo in the next generation?

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Squilliam said:

Onimusha12 said:

Squilliam said:
Because no console company exists in a vacuum. Their actions also effect the companies and people around them. When you contrive a different set of circumstances surrounding known events it always has unexpected consequences. These unexpected consequences may be for the better or worse and you simply don't know because once you change things you're heading into unfamiliar territory. Therefore saying that if they did X instead of Y, things would definately be better is untrue.

I'm curious as to how anything I've said suggests any of the console companies exist in a vacuum. Perhaps you're just borrowing terminologies that sound good rather than actually fit the situation? You are entitled to think whatever you like, but as I've already pointed out you don't have adequate logic to back your claims or ideologies, just vague and dodgey "well, anything could happen" deferments to any real substance.

 

You cannot predict the future. -> Established fact.

Butterfly effect -> "Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system"

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

Therefore you cannot say "Had Sony done this or that they would have been X"

 

 

 

 

 

I've read the thread up until this post, so I don't know what discussion has gone after this. But I just wanted to point this out, as I don't understand how you could think otherwise.

 

I can say with 100% confidence, that had Sony launched the PS3 $300 (give or take), they would've been in a ridiculously better position than they are right now. That writing was on the wall 5 seconds after they announced the price at E3 2006. They screwed themselves over by trying to shoehorn a media storage that wasn't needed onto their existing loyal base, and using them as scapegoats to drive down the price and get blu-ray players into peoples homes. Remember them saying they could sell 6 million consoles without even releasing any games?

 

They were wrong, and it hasn't really payed off as well as they had hoped for them.