Who Here Actually Likes Microsoft?

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Xxain said:

Legend11 said:

Xxain said:

__XBrawlX__ said:

I love Windows, the 360 is a great console, and Bill gates isn't like Scrooge McDuck... Everything sounds good to me....

I just think people don't like their strategy of buying the competition out. They tried to buy out both Ninty and Sega a while back, and since then has been buying up both exclusive games and companies to help themselves defeat Sony and Nintendo........................................... and Apple.

If you look at it though, the 360 wouldn't even be here if they hadn't done this...

 

Thats the sad part, Even SONY started alittle rough but when they got in the market, they started to establish their identity which MS still hasnt done, except being a cheap SONY ripoff with alittle Nintendo on the side

Wut?  Sony has been copying both Microsoft and Nintendo since they brought out the PS3.  The Xbox brand had Xbox Live long before Sony decided to rip off its features.  It brought a decidedly PC flavor to consoles which the PS3 because of it's lack of dominance or whatever is now a part of.  Seriously if anything it's Sony that lost its identity.

 

 

MS whole career In the gamming industry, HELL in general, is nothing but lookin at what everybody else is doing, taking bits and pieces, giving it a coat of new gloss and then slapping MS on it.

 

Fanboy glasses, let me show you them.

Why it doesn't bother you that Sony copypasted xbox live? Why it doesn't bother you that Sony copypasted Nintendo controls - first the analogs, then the motion sensing. Why it doesn't bother you that Sony attempted to copypasta Halo with their own flagship fps in order to appeal to western mainstream? Why it doesn't bother you that... etc?

Looking at what everybody else is doing, taking bits and pieces, giving it a coat of new gloss and then slapping Sony on it has been a fundamental part of Sony's console strategy for generations. 

Heck, they not only do it on the videogame market. Sony's DSLRs are copypasta konica-minolta designs, but at least they had the decency to buy the company before firing up the photocopiers. I could also talk about Sony professional video equipment, copypasting Panasonic approach towards tapeless workflows.

It's not just about Sony, corporations are always looking at what everybody else is doing. They need to in order to survive. Truly cutting-edge trend-setting corporations are really rare and they usually are only for brief periods, eventually someone else comes up with something better and then it's time to imitate features/designs/etc.

Heck, the truth is (at least in the videogame market) you wouldn't even know who the true innovators were. As usual, the innovator is quickly forgotten and only the company doing the copypasting and bringing the innovation to the mainstream is remembered.

Unless you are really deep into a certain field/market to understand what's really going on whatever perception of innovation you have is just a byproduct of marketing.