Have Microsoft solidified themselves as a gaming giant equal to Sony?

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CGI-Quality said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
Microsoft hasn't quite done it yet. Despite the fact that they have more name brand games than Sony doesn't finish the job just quite yet. The game changer will be whatever the decisions about buying out companies are. Microsoft needs to own at least 10 known gaming and worthy gaming companies before they can shut out Sony. Sony has 17, but Microsoft pumps out more with a very small group of companies under 1st party rule. If they had 10 known companies Sony would be eating dust.

Pardon?

Microsoft has actually games that are heavy name brands on top of having a mascot game being one of them. Uncharted isn't  a heavy name brand, Infamous isn't a name brand, Killzone isn't a name brand. All Sony has is MGS4 which is third party and GT still to this day is Sony's only first party baby and Jak and Daxter and Rachet and Clank are neither heavy name brands. Crash Bandicoot could've been a heavy name brand and a mascot if Sony didn't sabotage everything. Microsoft has Halo which has Master Chief as a company mascot and Gears of War with Marcus fenix quickly having his name become synonymous with the Xbox. Sony's only mascot character to tell you the truth is Snake and he's a third party character so it doesn't really count. Nintendo....that company has name brands up the yin yang....hence why SSMB was formed.

 

Back to my point though. If Microsoft bought 10 noteworthy companies to make first party games for them, based on the amount they pump out every year vs Sony, they would still have more productivity. If they created name heavy name brand games with at least 1/4 of those companies they would be in great shape.