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Imaginedvl on 08 October 2015
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aLkaLiNE said:
Sharpryno said:

Tale of the underdog?  Do you know who Sony is? Do you know all of the shitty things they've done?  Implying Sony is not a corporation? 

 

 


Less than 6 years ago analysts were pegging Sony at a ~80% chance for Bankruptcy.  They were a shell of their former selves.  The fact that they managed this turn around is literally one of the most compelling comeback strategies we've witnessed this century.  Beyond that, MS has nearly held a globabl monopoly for two decades in the home PC space.  We know that Xbox was created with the primary focus to disrupt the home console space in an effort to stimmy Playstation sales.  We know that they hardly breed creative IP, opting instead to buy their marketshare instead of working for it.  We know that Microsoft, with a cash reserve of >$96 billion is losing to a company that has around $8 billion sitting in the bank.  For all intents and purposes of this discussion and my original post, they are the underdog. They have done basically nothing to thwart Microsoft or eliminate them from any market.  The inverse is not true.

 

I'd also like to know how I implied that Sony wasn't a corporation, or for that matter all the shitty things they've done.  As far as I'm aware they came under fire 15+ years ago for some DRM fiasco.  Other than that, we have the PSN outage which isn't a shitty thing a company can do, but is a shitty thing that can happen to a company - something they ammended as best they could by giving out free games to all affected in addition to the class action lawsuit they are paying for.

Then there was a motion picture hacking which wasn't shitty for anyone other than them, but hey, I got to see the Interview for free because of it.

More recently we have the waterproof thing with their phones - which is a problem occuring on the user end due to mistreatment. Despite that they've replaced all affected phones and have changed marketing, despite the fact that the phones are waterproof out of the box.

Hum... You realize that both are trying to exactly do that :)

How can you seriously believe Sony would not kick Microsoft out of the gaming market if they could? Same goes from Microsoft. Both of them are here to win and sometime Sony wins, sometime Microsoft does. But both are big corporations (none are evil tho, only idiotic fanboys see it that way), both are businesses that cares about one thing : money and profits :) And if they can kill a competitor in the process, they will...

And Sony would buy market share if they could (they did actually lately exactly what Microsoft did with the 360...)...
Also bashing Microsoft's IP is just your own oppinion, as I can genuely say the same from Sony's IP... (will not even start to say my oppion on that because it will derail the thread). So no, "we do not know" they breed hardly creating IP. This is LARGELY tainted by Sony or Microsoft supporters. For Sony supporters, Microsoft's IP are bad... For Microsoft's supporters > Sony's IPs are bad and quite boring... If you look at each AAA IPs from each side and how much they sell each, it is kind of equivalent. I will even argue that MS is coming out with more interresting new IPs (to me) right now with the Xbox One but again, matter of oppinion and preferences.

Only thing is that neither Microsoft or Sony can kick the other one out of the ring... Which is awesome for the consumers :)