Spedfrom said:
Soundwave said:
Honestly I think in the higher end market, Microsoft is going to drive Sony out in the next 5-6 years by creating a better piece of hardware, which in turn will make them the console of choice for "hardcore" players.
Sony can't afford to price match Microsoft anymore, and Microsoft knows this. A couple of years of losses upfront on the 720 and they can bury Sony for good. We're starting to hear some reports that seem to indicate MS is "going for it" at the urging of some developers (probably Epic and some others). So I could see a situation where the 720 has say 4GB of RAM + a beefier GPU versus a Sony Orbis that has 2GB RAM/weaker GPU.
Nintendo will retain a good portion of the lower end/"normal person" (lol) market, but MS will make inroads here too with Kinect.
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You might want to rewrite your theory. Wishful thinking isn't the same as predicting.
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I like Microsoft the least of the three console manufacturers, but it's fairly clear if MS was to bait Sony into a tech war, Sony right now is in no shape to keep up.
Sony is billions of dollars in debt (it was recently downgraded to BBB+ ... which in layman's terms is very bad).
MS still makes comfy profits every year because of their OS business. If they view the 720 as a 7-8+ year investment and see an oppurtunity to release a better piece of hardware than Sony thus giving them a competetive advantage, just based on the way MS tends to behave, I think they would take it.
