| RolStoppable said: Ken Kutaragi openly stated during the PS1 era that their main competitor would be Microsoft and not Nintendo or Sega. Kutaragi's vision always was that a future iteration of the PlayStation should become a multimedia center to replace the PC one day and that's why Microsoft entered the console market. The Xbox line is a defensive business, it's main purpose was to stop Sony, no wonder that Microsoft was willing to lose so much money on the Xbox and came back with the 360 to do it all over again. Of course Microsoft also hoped to make money during the process, but so far the results have been dismal. Think about it, if a company makes $4 billion in losses in 4 years, why would they stay in this business and not exit it? |
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Microsoft is waging the living room war and they can't afford not to. It's the same reason why they're working on the "tabletop" computing, and it's the reason why movie theaters, arcades, and traditional entertainment venues are starting to fail.
Huge, high resolution displays, surround sound audio gear, powerful entertainment systems - in 50 years movie theaters will be in the same poor shape that arcades in America are. People looking at this from the perspective of a video game console war are not looking at the big picture
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