| Legend11 said: I actually think there is a problem at Microsoft. They could easily have much more of an impact with their video game business but don't due to bad decisions. They had the money (and still have it) to dominate the industry but choose not to. For a company that knows the value of software and how much exclusivity matters, I mean look what it did for Windows and their bottom line, they could have done a lot better with their consoles. |
The difference is in Windows and MS Office (where all their money comes from), they basically managed to take over an immature market. No one had yet established a big reputation.
In the Console game there were well established players with excellent reputations for providing platforms that sold plenty of software. Nintendo and Sony produced enough of their own software to basically stop MS from achieving a virtual monopoly. With sizeable 1st and 2nd party software being produced not even MS has the money to buy up enough 3rd party exclusivity to put Sony and Nintendo down. MS has realised that simply throwing money at 3rd party developers isn't going to get them console dominance. They mostly realised it because Wii beat the pants off them and it was clear very early on that Wii would beat them handsomely even if they paid off every 3rd party developer in the world to develop exclusively for 360 (which would have obliterated even their massive profits).
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