Why Microsoft entered the Console War

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MikeB said:

@ Cueil

I read the same arguments from way before the PS3 launched and now we are years past that and for some reason usually vivid 360 fans aren't able to let it go.

Will the same arguments be made when the PS4 launches?

Sony is a huge international company, employing many people, multiple the amount a mamoth monopolistic well more profitable company like Microsoft employs. Sony is competing in many different technology markets. People make mistakes, the more you do the more potential there is for mistakes.

I think Sony as a company has and is already paying for that?

IMO overall they did an excellent job on the PS3 hardware.

Apart from the mis-steps you mention, Sony appears to have an excellent reputation regarding product quality and overall consumer satisfaction.

Quite true. He brings up what Nintendo did in the 80's and what Sony did in 2001. Both companies have come a long way since then.

Every company makes mistakes. Good companies just don't make the same mistake twice(like how the PS3's failure rate is very very low). Lesson learned.

Then we have Microsoft who not only repeats their own mistakes, they even repeat their competition's mistakes, lol.

Microsoft Board Meeting, 2005: "So last generation Sony's PS2 had a certain degree of disc read error problems and they won. Faulty hardware must have been the secret to their success! This generation we will take it one step further. Instead of just an occasional disc read error, we'll have the entire system fail! And it will be much more common, say at least 33% of our consoles will have this feature! BRILLIANT! Begin production immediately! Oh and lay off the entire quality control division, we won't be needing them."