What made Microsoft succeed where Sega could not?

[zorg1000]

MaulerX said:

zorg1000 said:

NightDragon83 said:
So what I learned from this thread is that... M$ is good at making money, and SEGA wasn't.

Yup, sounds about right.

Oh... and M$ never released expensive add-ons for its existing consoles as stop-gaps between generations, nor did it decide it was a good idea to release a console months ahead of its officially announced release date with no games.

You could argue that Kinect was an in between generation add on. In 2009 sales of 360 slightly declined from 2008, if not for Kinect its very likely it would have continued to do so in 2010 and 2011 instead of those being its peak years.

 

 

All Kinect did was introduce a "different" way to play. It did not add extra power like the 32X did. Adding extra power via a peripheral shortly before their next gen console is what did Sega in with massive confusion. Not to mention that they competed against each other.

I agree but regardless it was still a mid gen upgrade, the only thing is they made a successful one where as Sega did not