The Xbox brand only surpassed the Playstation due to Sony's gross incompetence, little of that victory can be attributed to Microsoft. Nobody should bank on Apple making mistakes like Sony did with the PS3. Also, the console market is slower to adapt due to the 5-6 year hardware cycle which makes a blunder like the PS3 far more costly and difficult to recover from. Finally, we can look to the extremely poor performance of the Windows Phone to get an idea of how well Microsoft is capable of competing with Apple and Google.







