Don´t cry for Microsoft just yet.

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WagnerPaiva said:

Then I realise: Microsoft is in a VERY GOOD situation: everybody is so pessimistic about them after all that Xbox One reveal disaster that there is no place to go but up.

Everything positive they say in E3 will sound like a uncanny blessing from the skyes.

Sony may profit from the MS mistakes, but, if the name of the game is profit, the future is also looking pretty good for MS.

Some of the hardcore gamers will jump ship to Sony, but the casual Call of Duty/Fifa gamers will embrace Xbox One like always, and they are strong in numbers, make no mistake. 

Also, the SUPER casual will flock like sheep to the Kinect 2, which is also a sure bet if you want to make a quick buck.

And, last, but not least, the NON-GAMERS will want the TV-Sports-Go-Home stuff, not all of them, but, enough to give MS another healthy source of income.

That said, MS may have angered SOME of the gaming comunity, but, profit is as sure as rain in the company future.

1) It doesn't really work like that. Look at Sony's performance at E3 2006. It didn't put everyone in some sort of optimistic mood where they loved everything Sony did until the end of eternity; it made everyone despise Sony as a company until they actually started caring about their customers in 2009 or so.

2) Casual/social gamers are fickle (as I explain in this article). You can't bank on them like that. They're not going to show up on a console just because they can play real-time fantasy football and switch between Star Trek and Forza with a voice command. What they overwhelmingly want, as we saw on the Wii, is enjoyable and light gaming experiences. The Wii wasn't flying off shelves in 2006 because it could perform the functions of a cable box, it was flying off shelves because of Wii Sports. If Microsoft can get something like that, it may appeal to casuals, though it still might not because of the growing popularity of mobile gaming. But we have literally never seen multimedia features sell a console before, so I don't see why they would start now.

3) The super-casual didn't flock to the Wii U for being a successor to the Wii, so I don't see why they would flock to the Xbox One because they happened to like Kinect.