| S.T.A.G.E. said: As I said, take away Xbox Live because truthfully thats Microsofts ONLY strength. Everyones been trying to do online gaming but Microsoft SUCEEDED. Theres a difference because their main focus much like Windows is in OS and products with online capabilities. This is exactly what they helped Sega with. 1.Saw Sony was creating the ultimate home console and wanted in 2. copied Sonys ten year plan . 3. 2nd Console design reminiscent of the PS2 (especially in black) 4. Followed Sony's lead with the DVD format and thinks Sony will do it again but implements Blu Ray...Microsoft says "****! lets help out HD DVD". 5. Rushed the quality of their majority of their sold consoles to take a page out of Sonys book and endear themselves to third parties before Sony could introduce their dev kits. 6. Take great pride in collecting 3rd party titles synonymous with Sony and painting it as a victory and not shining light over great titles like the Witcher 2 which dont get enough press to the masses. Take last year for instance, they put Insomniacs new game up as if it was exclusive and had zero gameplay footage. Microsoft has always known Sony is synonymous with quality where games are concerned, and in order to be that way they must align themselves with those companies. The only difference is a lot of the third party titles they are now getting never rose to prominance with them outside of Gears. Should I go on? |
Online performance is not Microsoft's only strength, and in fact, Microsoft are the ones who made it a must-have for consoles. That's one huge thing in favor of Microsoft and wanting to remove it is simply for the sake of cherry picking.
1. No, they wanted to be more visible for consumers, rather than just being for enterprise customers. VG247 ran a few pieces on how the Xbox came to be last year, you should read them.
2. Yes, clearly wanting your device on the market for as long as possible and making as much money from it as possible is something only Sony wants.
3. Huh? The 360? The 360 Slim? Which one are you referring to?
I don't see any 360 model that looks like this:
or this for that matter: 
I honestly don't see how Microsoft copied the PS2 with any of those designs...
4. DVD was the most sensible format at the time, which is why they chose it. I won't talk about HDDVD, as I have no idea what reasoning Microsoft had behind it, but the fact that Sony has had to allow installs to the harddrives of the PS3 tells you that bluray wasn't quite ready for primetime.
5. It's called being first to market, and like with #2, it's not something Sony started doing.
6. Seeing as how development costs started to skyrocket with this generation, wouldn't it be likely that developers also wanted to have their games on the 360? Especially seeing as how Microsoft went out of their way to make piece of hardware that was easy to develop for.
I'm not saying Microsoft hasn't learned lessons from what Sony has been doing, but it all comes back to the sentence "Microsoft always ends up following Sony's lead" still being blatantly wrong. You won't accept online gaming as an area where Microsoft are leading, and you think Microsoft is following Sony in everything they do, which is clearly wrong.
@ happydolphin
It's a matter of principle, as S.T.A.G.E. is clearly trying to make Sony look superior to Microsoft by spreading misinformation.
