| Impulsivity said: I really have no idea why Microsoft is in it other then Microsoft wants to be in it and has money to burn. They have neither the cheap classic appeal of the Wii nor the cutting edge tech appeal of Sony. They are just kind of the turd in the punch bowl really that just creates needless competition without making anything better. |
Yeah, Sony struggling for two years to catch up with XBL, the Dashboard, XBLA, and XBLM didn't make anything "better".
Whether you like MS or not, they have had a HUGE impact on consoles over the past 9 years, starting with XBL and going from there.
Consoles would be in a very different place right now if MS hadn't stepped in and applied their storage ideas, interface skills, and online knowledge into the market.
If anything, I'd argue whether Sony has had as much of an impact from the technical side of things as MS in their brief time in the market. Sony basically continued the same formula that consoles formulated in the mid-80s with the NES while MS broke open an entirely new market with their combination of storage and online capabilities.
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