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Arkaign on 16 July 2014
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
CGI-Quality said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Duh...the Xbox was never originally in their plans and the shareholders don't like Microsoft straying from the original plan. I thought people paid attention to this long ago. They don't like MS wasting company dollars on video games. Microsoft does have a goal to stop Sony from dominating the gaming industry though, so they will continue.

If that's their goal, they aren't doing a very good job, at least not this time around. I'm one of the few that thinks differently, however. I believe last gen, they want to stop the onslaught of PlayStation. Much of what they did worked! Problem is, they didn't give the best follow-up.

I, too, believe they'll remain in the industry, but hardly to "stop the PlayStation". There's probably not much they can do without seriously hurting themselves.


Yep. Balmer has been ignoring shareholders for years. Its only because Sony has a multimedia OS and threatened the PC market with their dominance in the console realm why Bill Gates even signed up on the Xbox project in the first place. If Sony wasn't a visible threat to Microsofts multimedia OS monopolizing dreams they wouldn't have entered the gaming industry. They would've stayed right on Apples heels and kept publishing Flight Simulator like happy little boys. I have to hand it to them, they didn't increase the gaming market but they did take a chunk out of Sony's  expected marketshare last gen. ;)

P.S.

Microsoft will continue to pursue trying to discourage Sony's market growth. If Sony destroys them it will only encourage investors even further that the gaming industry is distracting them. Profit in gaming is nothing for Microsoft. They don't need to be here, but as long as Sony thrives, they have all the reason they need. Well either that...or Sony gives up and probably agrees to partner with them, because thats half the reason they are breathing down their necks as well.

 

^ That doesn't sound logical to me. iPod threatened them more than home consoles ever have, because it was a door into tons of young consumers with disposable income (and leads to Macbook/iPhone sales of course).

Microsoft's answer was Zune. It tried. It was actually a great product. But it failed, and MS canned it.

Microsoft doesn't care one crap about Sony's 'market growth'. Sony is INFINITELY less of an issue in relation to Microsoft in contrast to Apple/Google. Why do you think they're buying phone companies, screaming 'MOBILE/CLOUD is NUMERO UNO!"? Apple and Google can cause real harm to Microsoft, and have already in fact. Sony? They could sell 100M Vitas and 200M PS4s and it wouldn't mean jack squat to MS. In fact, if MS Game Studios made software and provided servers for those platforms, they could actually out-profit Sony on their own devices. Do you think it's lost on investors that Activision and Rockstar EASILY made more money off of Xbox than Microsoft ever did? Fat chance.