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Icyedge on 27 December 2009
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Squilliam said:
JinFantasy said:
Squilliam, your opinion is noted and very negative? why u always being a party crasher?
Do you want sony to fail so you can tell us you told us before? if sony beats the 360, and becomes profitable then what?

Xbox 360 is following the same path as HD-DVD...RIP undercutting the market only works for so long

I retort with the blind assertion that Sony is following the path of General Motors.

1. Rely on brand name and past success.

2. Release vehicles unsuitable to the market conditions.

3. Be unable to change due to management inertia

4. Discount said vehicles heavily to maintain market share/production but post massive losses.

5. Go bankrupt at the first sign of industry wide trouble.

6. Get bailed out by the government.

P.S. If the Xbox 360 was following the same path of HD-DVD it wouldn't have lasted for four years, actually post two years of profit and it wouldn't still be selling now would it? This generation DVD beat Blu Ray btw if you count the install base of the Wii + 360 combined and compare it to the PS3.

No I don't want Sony to fail. I just think that everyones getting too optimistic about things so I decided to provide doses of reality like the fact that the Wii is still more successful than any console previously released and that the Sony / Microsoft business models suck. Sonys is the original suckyness of the razor/blade mentality and Microsofts is a slightly improved but still sucky model next to the Nintendo model of 'how things are meant to be done'.

Ok so Nintendo  knows how to get thing done... Are you a gamer or stock holder in each companies. On a business point of view, they were able to grab a much bigger audience which is awesome. But as a long time gamer point of view its not the same thing.