Disgusted with the loss of Innovation (Kinect)? (/rant)

[Zappykins]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Imaginedvl said:

No Microsoft is not only buying their shit from other people... I do not think you realize how HUGE is the R&D department of Microsoft compared to Sony...

And while they are certainly doing like other companies out there, Sony is doing the exact same thing...

 Microsoft has recently become a hardware company compared to Sony. The only reason they are doing it is because they want to monopolize any device that has multimedia. Microsoft wants to be the only brand to provide multimedia options. They can be beaten though if the world sees a quality product that they cannot combat against. The IPod proved this. Apple has shown us that that if Microsoft cannot penetrate enough of the market they desire to take over within a certain amount of time they will pull out. I think its time Nintendo and sony get to thinking.

Buying Kinect and Nokia was some great R&D. I swear. 

Well, I would agree with you except the facts work against your theory.  Microsoft was willing to work with Sony.  They wanted to make the software and have Sony make the hardware for a game console.  But Sony would have non of that.  Microsoft makes much more money, like 6 times, for their hardware partners than themselves.

Plus, they could have stopped Android with their patents.  Instead, they get a small fee.

You act like they bought Kinect?  They used that one company's 3D structure light for the first Kinect, and bought a tiny piece of the company.  But all the other stuff and new Kinect is in house.

They have been making hardware since before Steve Balmer started working there in 1980.