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Adinnieken on 21 August 2013
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Kresnik said:

I agree with him in the sense that it's better that MS have listened to what consumers want and I totally respect that. It's very much the right thing to do.

The problem I have with it is - how did they come up with this console which consumers had to make so much noise about changing in the first place? It makes all this talk about "two-way conversations" seem like it's something they've just implemented. We're listening to you now (but, we weren't going to listen to you when we started).

Still, as long as they get to the right place in the end then that's all that matters.

edit: As a side note, all this ribbing between rival companies in this sector seems so tame these days.  I definitely like it better but it's not half as entertaining.

I think Microsoft wanted to do something extremely technology progressive.  Plan wise, I think it was.  Possibly a little too progressive for some.  In terms of digital gaming, I think Microsoft felt it's proposal was a good start and that it could tweak things with consumer input after launch.  Instead, it'll likely hammer out the technology parts and pieces necessary to make the technology work and make it more acceptable. 

I don't think Microsoft anticipated that it'd need to be rolling out everything so soon.  I think they anticipated they'd have an extra year before they would have been at this point where they could have polled gamers and developers about their plans.  However, there was no way that Microsoft was going to be caught off guard, so they changed their time-table. 

Sony on the other hand is depending on the success of the PS4.  Sony needs the PS4 to succeed to stay in business.  I'll concede it may not be as dire as I make it out to be.  There are plenty of parts of Sony that can be sold off, but to continue as it is today it needs to consistently turn a profit.  It can't do that if the PS4 does badly.

Microsoft success isn't squarely dependent upon the Xbox One being #1.  It's probably got #2 locked up, if it does strongly as a #2 or even expands it's market share in markets it did poorly in in Gen7, I think Microsoft will say it's a good thing.