| MontanaHatchet said: 1. Sony sold their console at an even bigger loss. Companies have been doing this with consoles for quite a while now. 2. If RPGs were so significant, wouldn't they be the highest selling genre this generation? Microsoft just wanted to gain a bigger fanbase in Japan, that's it. The main fanbase of the Playstation consoles is the casual fanbase, and Nintendo snagged them, not Microsoft. 3. Sony did this too with the Playstation, and they could have done it this generation if they wanted to. If Sony wanted to buy downloadable content for 50 million dollars, they could have. They're a global corporation. That's not even that much to them. |
And I'd add, sorry if anybody else did, that:
4. MS didn't manage to kill Sony, anyhow. Sony is 3rd, but it's staying afloat quite easily, considering the crisis and the smaller cash compared to MS, and it's showing it can still be big in Japan, although not as big as before. So if the main MS goal was to simply STOP Sony's advance, particularly towards the living room computing market, it fully succeeded, nobody can deny it, but if the goal was to crush Sony and steal Japan, it utterly failed.
5. Of the huge research and economic effort put by MS into this, it wasn't MS itself to gather the fruits, but Nintendo. And next gen, if it wants, Nintendo could easily do what MS feared from Sony, but this time with much more ease thanks to lower costs of the components needed and knowing in advance what MS could do to counter it. MS knows it and it' scared, it's evident from how much it tries to blandish and flatter Nintendo in public statements.
EDIT: Sorry to remind MS fanboyz that Nintendo gathered the wins MS tried to sow: it was harsh, but necessary to prevent them from drowning in their wet dreams. 
