Best and worst business decisions that Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony made

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Microsoft

+ Making a so good online they can take money for it.
+ Making an early release
+ Making many machines, so people say "it's only 300" and then "it is only 50 more for an even better one" and thereby making people pay more.
+ Attempting to buy up third party companies, so that they would stand a change to Sony's huge amount of games that would come when it launched (this didn't happen, but they prepared good)
- Going out a few months to early, and not be able to fix RROD which has cost them a lot of money.
- Not doing enough advertising that they were comming out in Japan.
- Not enough "european" games. They fail to understand what games they want.

Sony:
+ Letting the Ps2 continue going.
+ Making 4 different versions of the machine, attempting not to get outpriced totally.
+ Adding blue-ray. This is in the future going to earn them heaps of money.
- A little high price point.
- Not making 3rd parties understand how to develop (not really sure this is Sony's fault)
- Stopping to make games for Ps2.
- Take away backtracking.

Nintendo:

+ Wii remote
+ Stylus
+ Understanding that DS phat was a tiny mistake, and make DS lite, while not taking away DS phat.
+ Virtual Console
+ Not releasing tons of Wiis, so that they get on the news channels about lack of Wiis, making Wiis popular.
+ Aiming for casual markets.
+ Packing in games with the Wii remote, Zapper and so on.
+ Making games easier to pick up for casuals.
+ Making the console cheap.
+ Showing videos of NORMAL people playing, and not mastering the game completely, MS and Sony makes way to professional movies.
+ Making Sakurai make SSBB
+ Miyamoto lets other people work with his franchises, so that other can continue after him.
+ Continuing to release Mario spinoffs.
+ Not always using Stylus/Wiimote.

- Letting in EVERY third-party game made for Wii. This made dev's see that quality didn't equal money on Wii. So they made not that good games, hoping they would sell. Soon there were too many, and dev's became upset cause their games did not sell.