Xbox "has a shot at owning the living room"

[Jereel Hunter]

YukanaSenix said:

Nsanity said:

GamesIndustry International

"In the past five years, Xbox went from number three to number one [in the home video-game console race], and we took Xbox Live from nothing to north of 40 million users," Mattrick said.

"With Smart Glass we'll add a very simple idea: context and intelligence and sharing between different devices."

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-07-11-xbox-has-a-shot-at-owning-the-living-room

Ok they are 30 Millions behind the Nintendo Wii
Sony is outselling them for 4 years in a row now - Only the CoD and Halo month every year is saving them(shows how pathetic the whole console race is if you can maintain your place thanks to such an easy to impress community) every time otherwise Sony would have overtaken them in a long time.But the truth is Sony is selling more worldwide and the PS3 is the console were the most Software is sold nowadays.

They aren't Number 1 anywhere except on the things were you are forced to use their stuff(Windows on PC for games cause Apple is to stupid otherwise everyone would switch to them)

And please don't call me a fanboy - Those are facts.Nintendo is Number 1 and Sony is outselling them but Microsoft can keep the distance cause of 1 strong month per year in the USA with either CoD or Halo.
This is the truth and no one can deny that.On the other side Microsoft is talking always about being number one RIGHT NOW even if the numbers show they aren't.

Well, I'm not sure who I'd call you a fanboy of anyway - but you're definitely a hater. Make any excuses you want for any and all the products you like - MS will continue to laugh all the way to the bank. You can choose to ignore other areas where MS is #1 at the moment if you like - peripheral sales, online revenue, etc.

I like how you claim the only reason windows has market share is because Apple is "too stupid". A nice way to paint a negative light on MS clearly putting out the best OS for the average person. The competition is "too stupid" to invest billions in an attempt at making something better.

And claiming that CoD annually "saves" the Xbox is to ignore the fact that it being a multiplatform title, it's the fact that it's on a superior online service that pulls in greater numbers of people.

Fact is, this generation the Xbox brand engaged 2 entrenched opponents, it had a much larger overarching strategy for profit than Nintendo (developing an online presence and taking over many functions in the living room), which is panning out quite well, and a much more well thought out and executed business plan than Sony (who's best case scenario this generation is breaking even on the PS3) - and yet your post makes it seem like they should have no claim to success at all.