Sony did it, what should Microsoft (Xbone) and Nintendo (WiiU) do to make a comeback?

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OdinHades said:

Microsoft could buy Valve and bring Half-Life 3 as an exclusive. Or they could just start to throw away XBoxes dirt cheap, like 99 $ or something. Both options would be horribly expensive, but there's no way they'll make a serious comeback this gen without major losses. They should just concentrate on the next gen for gaining market share while still delivering for their fans on X1. When you know you have lost, you just need to let it go.

That would probably be the biggest dick move in all of gaming history, I mean to buy a PC centric company that actually stood up when MS left PC gaming for a number of years and then take away a game made popular on the platform to become exclusive to their console would probably kill any and all hope they have for a chance at winning back the PC market along with other fans in general. Buying out studios, devs and IP's just isn't a really good idea, it sounds great on paper most of the time but a lot of the time it means less of an audience, loss of fans and money in the longrun which leads to some IP's even dying off and studios closing (which we've seen a lot of the past decade alone).

I feel it would be better if MS just rides it out this gen, same with Nitnendo, the two of them taking focus and putting it towards creating their own IP's and working externally with other studios like they did with Insomniac, they allowed them to keep their own IP while Sony originally wanted to own it, Insomniac is such a studio that proves devs can and will want to own their ideas and still hold onto them, MS could gain more partners in the future by allowing this than simplying buying them up and hoping they deliver and don't complain.

Hopefully by next gen both MS and Nintendo will have learned from this current gen and show what they have learned via new marketing, hardware and innovations.