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

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FKNetwork said:

Lord N said:

 

First of all, Microsoft's "plan" didn't work. Sony's fall from grace in the video game market is due solely to their own tremendous gaffe's, the most noticeable one being that they released a ridiculously over-engineered $600 dollar console. It was nothing that Microsoft did. Even then, the margin by which they have outsold the PS3 is negligable, especially when you consider that the difference in sales right now is virtually equal to the amount of 360s that had been sold when then the PS3 was launched. That being said, both platforms have moved about the same amount of hardware in the same period of time even though the PS3 has been more expensive with a smaller game library for most of its lifespan.

The Xbox 360 may have sold more than the OG Xbox, but that's not really saying much when the latter only sold 24 million units last gen. MS really had nowhere to go but up. They'd have had to make some mistakes on par with 90's Sega to actually sell less. MS is in the exact same position it was in last generation, which is a distant second place with an insignificant lead over the third place competitor. If the 360 were really doing so great, then why is it that the only system it's managed to outsell all generation is the PS3? Sure, it looks good as long as you ignore the face that it's taking the exact same beating from Nintendo and just focus on the last-place console.

As far as Natal goes, there are going to be a lot of dissapointed people on these forums. First of all, no controller add-on that was released several years into a generation/console's lifespan has ever had any kind of significant effect, and Natal wont' be any different. First of all, it won't have a 100% attach rate, which means that third parties aren't going to pay much attention to it, which goes without saying considering that nearly all of the Wii's most popular games are in-house titles, and MS's in-house talent is really nothing to write home about. Another thing that people don't seem to get is that the reason for Nintendo's success this gen with the DS stylus & touchscreen and the Wii's Wiimote & Nunchuk is software that appeals to everyone, something MS has yet to achieve. Every title like this that MS has attempted(Lips, Scene It, Kameo, Viva Pinata, Banjo & Kazooie) has been an unimitigated failure on all fronts. Very few people will care about it because the demographic that it's meant to target has already been snatched up by the Wii and its more appealing software, and Natal will just be soon as a weaker version of the Wiimote. Really, had Nintendo released the Wiimote as an add-on for the Gamecube in 2004, would it have made any kind of a difference?

While Natal's imminent failure may not cause MS to exit the home console business, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it did in fact tarnish the Xbox brand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please don't tell me you actually believe a word of what you just wrote, what a load of bias rubbish....

And regarding natal, we will all see how well it has done when its released later in the year, hope your ready to eat humble pie, and as I said before, it is Sony that are in a dodgy position right now, if anyone was to leave gaming it would be Sony, PSP a failure, the PS3 losing the company so much money and STILL lagging in 3rd place, Sony losing more money in its latest reports, they can't go on like this much longer and people seriously think they could afford to make a PS4 lol.

lord n. i agree with alot of whta you said and FKNETWORK i just dissagree. sony has made a come back and for you to say if anyone it would be sony is crossing the line for me. on the other hand. i think the hole thread is a fail on this topic. MS failure rate should have doomed them but it didn't. people just kept sayying i like failure: ummm give me some more. nintendo can't get a decent hardcore game to sell if there was one on there console that was good enough to be average.

and as for sony. please don't get me started on sony. they got cocky and fucked shit up big time. the only real thing i can commend them on other than making a comback is selling 16m in there first two yr's in comparison to MS 12m in there first two yr's.

P.S VGCHARTZ has the numbers to back that last statment. im not coming back to this thread in fear of being banned!