kitler53 said:
yeah, i suppose. MS has it easier here because it will be less devistating to the xbone to back out of their kinect investment than it was for ps3's blu ray. but the initial decision was very similar. some business guy at sony (during ps3 design) and MS (during xbone design) said: "we are willing to comprise our product's other core vales in order to include this other feature." in sony's case they comprised heavily on price selling a really expensive product at a massive loss. in ms's case they comprised on price and performance putting out a somewhat expensive product with relatively poor performance. |
Yes, it both came from the same arrogance. Both thinking they have all the momentum and people and developers will follow them blindly. Sony lost a ton of money on the ps3, MS has already had to put a temporary stop to their all digital always online plans as both users and publishers weren't buying into it for gaming. Now they're still hoping that they can become the middle man for watching all video content.
Sony pulled it back by heavily investing in first party games and subsequently the ps3 also became the most used Netflix box. Hopefully MS will follow the same strategy, more original games is always good :)