Stinky said:
riecsou said:
One thing for sure MS tried to get Sony out of the gaming war with the Xbox 360 and their money. Buying exclusives, releasing the Xbox 360 while Sony was still not ready for the next gen. Selling the 360 cheaper each time Sony would do a price cut (until the Slim came out). If not for the slim (specially for the PS3 Slim) and for system sellers such as (God of war, Uncharted, Gran Turismo, Metal Gear, The last of US) , MS would have crush Sony.
That is why this coming GEN Sony didn't leave much to chance and Microsoft got comfortable because currently they own US big time.
And this is just my opinion, I believe that Sony was planning on doing the DRM thing and online stuff too cause there is no way Microsoft was crazy enough to be the only one to do that. And when Sony saw the reaction of the gamers, they made themselves look like the savior of gaming... |
It's clear that Sony were in a bad position with the PS3 and are in a sorry financial state launching the PS4, due to the competition of MS and Nintendo. Blaming that fully on MS is ignoring the obvious bad business decisions made by Sony and if anything, MS showed them mercy when they could have easily continued cutting the price of the 360 and buying up games which Sony would never have been able to match. In hindsight MS spent just enough for the 360 to gain critical mass and become profitable where Sony continues to throw money at big production exclusives, money they don't have.
Let us consider that outside of fan flamewars, MS and Sony are partners with Sony's Vaio products being amongst the most prestigious Windows competitors agains Apple, and that even the Xbox sells Sony music and movie content as well as Sony's Crackle product. Let us also consider that MS has been convicted of monopoly more than once and it would not look good for them to be dumping product and sending a competitor out of the market.
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Lol, you got me wrong. I am not blaming MS for the bad business decisions made by Sony, on the contrary MS made a lot of very good decision with the Xbox 360 while Sony was getting arrogant thinking that most PS2 players will buy the PS3 and new players will buy the PS3. That is the advantage of coming from behing. Microsfot learned from the Xbox to launch the Xbox 360. Now Sony learned from their past mistake for the PS3 and are now launching a $400 PS4 vs a $ 600 PS3. I am eager to see how this war will turn out.
