| disolitude said:
As the title says - discuss if Sony showed anything last night that may be concerning to Microsoft.
My personal opinion: I think Microsoft doesn’t need to worry about anything Sony announced here. Better hardware is the expected for both consoles. Which one has 5-10% extra power is not a game changer anyone will lose sleep over. What else is new that Sony showed off here? Social features. I am pretty sure that MS is well aware of social features judging by Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 abilities to integrate socially in to everything. Some of the streaming stuff Sony showed off was pretty interesting, but Microsoft could easily one up them with their cloud infrastructure (see Azure being number one cloud service) and software experience they have.
Bottom line is that I think Sony has an idea of what Microsoft is bringing and they realized it's better to announce the console early and get some public and developer attention instead of competing at E3 and ending up in Microsoft’s shadow. |
I've felt that way since the reveal was announced and feel that way even more so after it. Also that it was done mostly for stockholders to have something to feel confident about since the last quarterly financials were so disappointing.
Now I'm not gonna sit here and say that the next Xbox will blow away the PS4 or anything premature like that. The PS4 didn't near have a bad showing and Sony obviously has plenty of support behind them to be a formidable opponent. MS CANNOT be overconfident as NOTHING is guaranteed for anyone this gen. Consoles are fighting for relevancy in this smartphone/tablet gaming world, particularly with the media.
If their reveal is not coming until May or something, though, they really have an opportunity to put together a nice reaction to the PS4 reveal. There's a lot to learn from it for sure.
