Sony is "playing catch up" to Microsoft with Gaikai acquisition - UKIE chairman

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sales2099 said:

M.U.G.E.N said:

sales2099 said:

babuks said:
If my English understanding is right, then 'catching up' means one already have done something and the other is following him in the same path to 'catch him'. Sony now owns Gaikai, what does Microsoft has? Who is playing catch up in reality?

MS allready has the infrastructure. They just didnt reveal anything to us. Time isnt right yet. 

Sony had to blow 380 million just to be on the same level as MS. Thing is Sony shouldnt be spending right now either. 

They spent money with their cash reserves and they have been investing a lot recently and all investments are considered to be good investments going into the future.

TO play catch up there should be something for sony to catch up to..there really isn't anything other than this PR. That's not playing catch up at all. Unless you have some form of info on the matter that is. Gaikai and Onlive are already operational businesses/tech. The one that is still not operational is the one playing catch up by definition. Guess who that is

Sony should be building their reserves about now....but I digress. 

A corporation doesnt have to reveal its plans just because we want to. We aren't even investors and even they get left in the dark until the corporation sees fit to announce something. If you think MS has nothing in the cloud department you got another thing coming...and they didnt blow 380 much needed millions to get it. 

Nope a company that needs to turn things around do so by investing. And their recent investments have been solid all around. A recovery is not a short term process but it's also not without investments such as this.

You are missing the point here. They are claiming sony is playing catch up to something no one knows about lol. That by definition makes no sense. Sony have had some work in the 'cloud' before too you know. 

And please, as all analysts have pointed out this was a really good price for what they got. If you think for MS to build up to something similar to Gaikai does not cost them anywhere near that amount, you are deluding yourself. 

At the end of the day you are arguing against facts, with PR with nothing to show for it. The one catching up is ms ;) It's not a bad thing, but that's just how it is.