Alby_da_Wolf on 09 January 2010
| Reasonable said: Good article. It's a pity MS were able to use their position to achieve this. While the businessman side of me thinks 'fair enough' the more liberal side of me mourns a system that allows an initially inferior and essentially not required new standard replace a perfectly fine existing one, and do so in a way that moves the situation from open standards to something overly controlled and influenced by a single company. I do wonder sometimes, if both Sony and Nintendo had adopted DirectX and other MS standards into their consoles, whether MS would even have bothered with releasing a console at all to champion its own standards. |
Good intuition: as this would have implied most probably the adoption of some kind of Windows based system or subsystem, it would have meant for MS conquering not all the living room, but at least a share of it greater than what it did with XB1 and it's doing with XB360. And without having to fight and bleeding money for it, but actually profiting since the beginning.
