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S.T.A.G.E. on 27 March 2013
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Mr Puggsly said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:


Sonys goal was to bring multimedia to gaming. Microsoft saw them as a threat two things (and you can look this up):

1) Their massive gaming multimedia marketshare.

2) Their dominance over third parties and their force vs PC gaming which pretty much laughed at console gaming before the Playstation arrive when they were more vocal. Microsoft joined vowing to save PC gaming and just ended up taking from PC gaming so they could pad out their multimedia endeavors against Sony. They saved nothing.

Sony isnt the reason Flat Screen TV's became affordable. Sony is the initial reason DVD's became affordable in the early 2000's and Blu Ray players. The mass sales of Blu Ray Players and DVD's while they launched their console (and taking the financial hit in both gens). They are responsible for Blu Rays survival and the bedding which made it possible for people to buy them as low as $99 dollars today. 

Sony's goal was to bring multimedia to gaming? All they did was put a DVD player in a console. For the 7th gen all they did was put a Bluray player in a console. Sony was focused on physical media and didn't anticipate the boom of downloading and streaming media. MS saw the potential there before Sony and has capitalized on it.

I agree MS saw Sony as a threat. But MS looks at a lot of companies that can potentially take some of their market share as a threat. The problem Sony had in 2006 is they were under the illusion they had no competition and saw no threats

I don't recall MS vowing to save PC gaming, not that I feel it really needed saving per se. The biggest problem PC gaming has had is piracy. But for some genres there is more potential for profit on PC than consoles.

Bluray is about 7 years old now? It would have inevitably became $99 with Sony's help or not. I wish Sony somehow made Bluray movies cheaper. I mean $30-$35 for a new movie? They can go fuck themselves.


Blu Ray would've gone the way of HD-DVD without Sonys help. Give Sony their due credit. Look it up, HD-DVD was destroying Blu Ray and was primed to be the secondary to DVD's until Sony intervened and took the risk to save Blu Ray in the gaming industry and by the wide spread sales (just liked the PS2) era allowed Blu Ray to sit comfortably at a mass market price that is affordable for everyone even though they bled twice financially to make it happen. The rise of DVD's and Blu Rays happened pretty quickly. Laser Disc and HD-DVD never had that boost the gaming industry gave. Microsoft tried to do the same thing Sony did for Blu Ray but was too late to save HD-DVD, because the sales of PS3's covered the sales of Blu Rays which swallowed up the alternate disc market to DVD's. Now look at your best buy which is pretty much 80% Blu Ray. Yeah, thats all Sony's doing.