Why Microsoft entered the Console War

[daroamer]

Final-Fan said:

nightsurge said:

Final-Fan said:
nightsurge, your sig implies that MikeB is a PS3 booster and makes biased posts because his financial fortunes are tied to Sony's. I think that you couldn't be more wrong: I say his reasons are entirely personal.

So the fact that MikeB owns a computing company named Fun Computing, and is in talks with Sony on the possibility of puting the AmigaOS 4.x on PS3 hardware, with which would make his company quite a good profit, has nothing to do with it?

If that is the case, I pity him even more in all his stealth trolling and misinformation schemes.

Well, I'm not saying that the two are unrelated, of course; just that it's not a cause-effect relationship.  I think it's more likely that since he is an Amiga worshiper and PS3 fanboy, he would naturally try to unite his two loves if possible:  thus the talks with Sony.  I think he would be on here saying more or less the same things regardless of whether his business stood to profit from Sony's performance.  Because he's a fanboy boosting his chosen idol(s), not because he's a businessman boosting his business partner. 

All this is IMO of course, since I'm not peeking inside his mind.  In fact, I think you know more about him than I do, but I still have that opinion.

A fanboy is already likely to distort facts, spin data and sometimes outright lie in order to paint their plastic box of choice in always the best possible light.  A fanboy with a vested business interest is even MORE likely to do so and in fact will probably never do anything but.