Slightly tl;dr but I think I agree.
Sad but true, because those strategies, while successful, don't align well with my personal preferences.
I want an expensive launch price for most powerful hardwate possible.
I don't care much about online and echo-systems spreading into the living-room.
(I play online a lot but I don't need a company to specifically put even more marketing and resources into it just to get some fluff Im not interested in.)
I hate the idea of streaming games from the cloud.
And I don't like Kinect.