Soleron on 14 April 2009
The reason why companies do anything, from announcing products to doing marketing campaigns, is because it will bring greater profit.
Would the 200m USD investment increase Microsoft's profit? Decreasing Sony's profit is not the same as that. Microsoft won't do anything merely because their fanbase wants it, and they won't do anything that will bring antitrust investigations upon them (making secret exclusivity deals third parties with is the fastest way to do that).
