Senlis said:
A couple things I disagree with on the article.
First off, I don't like the word "afraid". It's more like Sony is the company they can most directly compete against.
Under the heading "Context": I never did like the work "high-definition" because it is loosly defined and implies that all games on the XBOX360/PS3 are 1080p. This is not the case with many popular games on the system.
That is besides the point, the article seems to imply that the XBOX360 is not high definition where the PS3 is. Maybe they are talking about movies, but they don't say that.
They also seem to imply that Sony could have magically released the same PS3 at the time of the XBOX360 release for the same price it is now. That would not have happened, they would have either weakened the system or upped the price durastically. Probably both would have happened. If they had release a console more along the lines of the PS2 at the same time the XBOX360 released, then maybe things would have been different. All of the PS2 fans would have ran to the PS3 in that case. As it is now, it seems the XBOX360 is the PS2 of this generation.
Under the heading "Grand Scheme": The XBOX360 is not competing with the PSP. Even if the PSP took over the entire handheld market, it wouldn't make that much difference to the XBOX360 market share. The PSP has no place in that article.
As for the article as a whole, I think Microsoft has proven that they can compete in the gaming industry. I seriously doubt that Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony will go the way of the Sega any time soon.
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