Will Microsoft get out of the console race if Natal is not successful?

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TheNoobHolocaust said:

FKNetwork said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

...so no, no they won't. In fact, I think out of the big 3, Xbox is the second most secure brand.

^This

Sony is the one poeple shold be more concerned about, their future is far from safe right now....

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This is a chart of each companies gaming division only. Sony still has alot of PS1 and PS2 royalties but is losing a lot of it, Nintendo isn't going anywhere, and Microsoft is in the red $9 Billion. Regardless I don't see anybody leaving anytime soon.

You can't go by legacy figures when you are determining a company's health. You have to look at the company as a whole, not one single division, and you have to figure out the goals of the companies, and the RELATIVE net loss they are taking.

I said what I've said, because I believe MS is a much healthier company than Sony, atm. They hold the rights to the perpetually successful windows OS, and can apparently afford to blow 10 billion dollars on destroying Playstation dominance on home consoles. However, it is unknown if Sony would be willining to take even a 10th of that loss. Sony is in the console gaming business to turn a profit, MS was initially in the console gaming business to disrupt competition to its Windows OS.

Thus, imo, Sony is more questionable than MS, since it has taken some serious losses this gen, while the Xbox brand is on an upswing in popularity, Playstation gaming has certainly declined drastically. I have a hard time believing Sony boardmembers would be willing to take the chance on a new console for many more years, especially if their other sectors are underperforming.

I do wonder what would happen if next generation, Sony released an underpowered console? Would the fans of the high end graphics on the PS3 this gen jump ship, or would they simply change their argument? It certainly didn't seem to matter to them when the PS2 had significantly less graphical power than that of the other consoles last generation.

No matter how you look at it, this generation has been a loss by Sony and a huge boon to Microsoft and Nintendo. We tend to get mixed up in the trees and forget the forest. No one in their right mind would have predicted how consoles sales this generation would have came out, 6 years ago, and saying Nintendo would have the first place console would have been laughable.