Psychology of a fanboy (my personal perspective)

[wenlan]

FOOD said:

• They don't fight fire with fire. Microsoft isn't in the business to compete; they are in the business to take over. It's their goal in just about every industry they lay their hands on. I understand when a Japanese gaming company says that they would work with them if they had more merit. Microsoft buys exclusive after exclusive in hopes that it can finally kill off the competition. Sony, however, is too passive and hopes that their picture album of the time they went to a karaeoke bar with the guys at Konami is enough to hold their business relationship together. I appreciate their merit, but they need to understand Microsoft is fighting dirty really early. It's great that the PS2 beat the Xbox fair and square, but times are different.

Well said. This is the main reason I don't want to support M$'s video gaming business. I don't think Xbox360's success will do anything good to the gaming industry. I hope their ambition of taking over this business will be dampened by Sony and Nintendo.

However, I do appreciate M$ throwing away their monopolic money to the 3rd party developers. Those money really help those developers go through the tough transition and establish more skills and experiences for their future releases. Keep buying time-exclusive JRPG, M$!

I don't hate M$, I just don't like their business model for their gaming department.