| TheRealMafoo said: MS can not compete with Sony when it comes to hardware. Sony can not compete with MS when it comes to software. Wouldn't it be great if Sony and MS got together and made the next console? Everyone wins. Sony could make all there money off the unit and games, and MS could make there money off XBL and downloads. Both companies would make more money. A lot more money (especially MS). All the high end games (assuming Nintendo goes the same route and makes a far less powerful unit) will by nature be exclusive, and thus coded better for the platform. It could play all PS1,2,3 games and all X-Box and 360 games. MS could make the dev environment, and lower costs and time for release, yet on Sony hardware, thus producing better results on a more powerful system. I bet if that thing came out, they would sell 150-200 million of them. Huge profits all around. Best of all, not only would Sony and MS come out better for it, we win.
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I really wouldn't describe Microsoft as a good software company because there have always been far better options when it comes to their software ... Microsoft is far more of a services company. You can see this in their market position because it is XBox Live, Achievements, and the other services Microsoft provides through the XBox which makes it an interesting product.
A couple years ago (before the revolution was announced) I thought the best pairing of console manufacturers would be Nintendo and Microsoft. In many ways Nintendo and Microsoft have very different expertise and would compliment each other in ways that no other companies could ... Of course, now that Nintendo is doing so well there is no motivation for this.
