| S.T.A.G.E. said: No. Read it anywhere, Microsoft responded to Sony's doubling growth of the gaming industry and saw that Sony was a threat because of multimedia and OS. Look up how Microsoft got into the industry and you will the direct X guys proposed the idea for a console and the board laughed at them. They kept in talks and eventually had a meeting with Bill Gates who was behind the idea once they saw Sony as a visible threat. Look it up...it has nothing to do with Nintendo...they want Sony. What they wanted from Nintendo was fifty million+ casual gamers Nintendo brought in, which is what the Kinect went after. You are not judging the correlations based on what I am saying. I stated the companies make movements, the fans follow those movements. Any movement they make the fans will bark about it online. All major brands have some following, it just so happens that Nintendo and Microsoft find Sony to be a threat...therefore...their fans also do. |
man you really believe things instead of thinking them through... your logic is so flawed it's like a french cheese drawn by Disney...
even by your criteria (Sony and MS dispute over the living room being apparent to the fan base even though it isn't and xbox had no fans to start with) then you should consider that Microsoft wasn't trying to become number 1 all of a sudden and was instead trying to find a comfortable positionning. So by your own "logic" the aim of MS's first gen being to at least have a decent market share they were more in competition with Nintendo than Sony at the time and by tyour own logic Ninty fans and MS fans should have been at each other's throats which wasn't the case.
Unless you imagine fans as fanatic people who will support the long term strategy of their respective providing corporations against their own interest and having guessed that Xbox would be able to make it which was very far from the perception of 90% of gamers at the time [the xbox being the first non japanese console to survive after the video game crash]
frankly - your theory is somewhat delusional...
