badgenome said:
Yeah, that doesn't sound like Microsoft at all... I think you are way overthinking this thing. Microsoft saw a chance to make even more money while having absolute control over all of your content and getting all the third parties to hail them as the savior, so they went for it. Then it blew up in their faces quite spectacularly, but sadly not quite as spectacularly as it would have if they had actually gone through with it. Period. |
I would have agreed, had they not shown it so openly to the consumer. You don't think it's weird that a console manufacturer would just opnely say "You know what? Screw the consumer. We want more money", when it's in heated competition with two others? Nintendo got arrogant when it had a clear market majority, Sony got arrogant when it had a clear market majority. I wouldn't expect Microsoft to pull of similar arrgance unless.....you guessed it.....it had the clear market majority.
