Xbox: Mission Acomplished

[johnsobas]

Bboid said:

pika said:

Microsoft enter the videogame market with one purpose: don't let Sony to take their computer business with his Trojan Horse.

Back those days, Playstation brand was at top and Microsoft fear them as hell.... but now, Playstation means almost nothing and although Nintendo is again #1, they seem to don't care, because they only want to make games.

Do you think the Xbox did his mission or needs to do something else, like control the market?

 

 

 

 

 

It's funny you posted this picture because Microsoft has performed similarly to the United States military performance in Iraq. The short-term goal of the Xbox 360 was to penetrate the market and become a leader of HD console gaming.  They did this at a cost though.  They produced a horribly flawed unit (i love my unit but you can not argue against this) as a vehicle to achieve this goal (xbox 1 being the gulf war 1) and though the unit was successful in market penetration, they will be spending/have spent years correcting the issues.  This almost directly compares to Iraq where we entered, stormed, won and after the fact spent years/are spending years solving the insurgency issue/infrastructure issues caused by an insufficient military presence at the initial invasion to control groups and underground insurgency.

 

Ironic huh?

 

Ok, but people are dying and we are using billion and billions of everyone's tax dollars to fuel a war.  Not exactly the same.