How Microsoft Ruined fun for everybody

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Squilliam said:

Dno said:

Xoj said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:
Without MS, how awful and expensive would the PS3 be this gen? Think about it.

it would be 399$ you know there is nintendo.

excatly.. people forget that nintendo kicked Sonys butt this gen... M$ had very little to do with it but it did help by stealing games even tho it did not damage sony as much as the wanted to. Sony also killed their own self. (600 price tag was insane but i still bought it day one and am very happy because i have BC.)

Theres very little chance that they would have cut the price in the first year of release in Pal and a little over the first year in NTSC if the Xbox 360 didn't exist or was irrelevant. They paid on their bottom line, not through their hardware sales. Hell the PS3 would have looked a lot cheaper had there not been a cheaper alternative, get me?

Without MS and their console I see two possible futures...

1. Online game play would never have seen the light of day for possiblities that LIVE has brought to gaming.  It may have existed for PC gamers before but there would be no new benchmark to compare online gaming.  It would have been a snail pace to get to the point that it's at now.  (I still think it should be free to owners of 360 though   ).

2. Without MS's console, Sony would not have been PUSHING the limits of technology because Nintendo wasn't pushing the limits.  Sony would have focused on games more I think and left the home entertainment concept with their home electronics division.  I think they would have stayed the dominant force in consoles but the system would have been similar to what Nintendo's system is now.  The specs would have been closer and the online functionality would have been very basic.  If MS wasn't in gaming, I don't think there would have been a $600 system to talk about.  PS3 original would have been more like a PS3 slim.

Just my guess at where sony would have been without a MS console.