lol i must say i disagree with a lot of this :
"Xbox Live is the best online gaming platform in existence. "
"Sony gets to retreat into hardware and content, its greatest strengths. Remember, Sony was the Apple of the ‘80s and ‘90s: a hardware company that happened to sell and produce a lot of media designed to be played on the hardware it sold.
Every time Sony has strayed from their core competencies, they've been half-hearted at best—catastrophic at worst. But they remain tremendously profitable in the areas where they just build good hardware—their HDTVs, for instance—and leave the fancy network and software business to someone else."
sony became the generation leader for two gens when it the entered the games market ( i can only assume this is an example of straying )... furthermore the day sony stops making games and relies on microsoft to make them instead is the day i drop them completely
"It might get Microsoft a toehold into Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericsson has been on shaky ground since before the iPhone, but even its modern Android phones—including the gaming-oriented Xperia Play—aren't anything special.
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is pretty great. It just needs apps—like games. A combined Sony and Microsoft attack on the mobile gaming space would be pretty powerful. (Although wholly unnecessary in making a Microsoft+Sony home console a success; it would just be nice.)"
Sony Ericsson is on shaky ground but windows phones 7 is great? steve balmer CEO of microsoft recently stated that windows phone seven is performing below expectations and with android and apple there, imo i don't see that changing anytime soon
