Dark Chaos said:
Azelover said:
MS leads an ideological dictatorship. Their goliath ways of buying press, buying message board opinion and buying publishers has left the public with little chance to make a legitimate choice.
They spent the first 7 years of their gaming existence buying it up with their revenue in other industries. This creates a situation where companies in the future cannot hope to compete, and who knows whether or not Nintendo themselves won't have trouble staying alive from all this buying up of gaming Microsoft does. It's very unbalanced long term, and creates an unhealthy situation, where innovating can only happen from a place of technology and what's being dictated from Microsoft. Just look at the features Microsoft has mandated on all Xbox 360 games from the beginning.
Even still, they're not winning now. But they're still the ones whose participation in the industry is most dangerous long term. So yes, I would like to see them leave. Hopefully it can return to the ways of entertainment, and these technology companies(Microsoft and looming Apple) can have other focuses. There's a reason why Sony created Sony Computer Entertainment to carry out the PlayStation. They were a technology company in origin, but they were well aware this was an entertainment business. |
Wow. I'm surprised that people still can be this ignorant. Last time I checked SONY has more developers than Nintendo and MS combined so I guess the real dictatorship is Sony. Also MS has brought tons of innovation from XBL, Natal, HDD, bringing pc games to the consoles..etc And I don't see any developers complaining against MS on any of their so called 'tactics'. BTW MS has their own entertainment division as well which is already profitting and in a better position than SONY. And what publishers have they bought this gen???
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@Dark Chaos: Agreed.
Apple, on the other hand, I would HATE to see enter the gaming arena. 5% of the OS market is enough snobby Apple users for me. Plus, I would hate to see all the obscure ways they would hide the options menus on their console, just like they do in OSX, an OS that is a jumbled mess if you're trying to do anything other than launch an app from the dock.
