The end of Xbox is approaching

[mjk45]

SWORDF1SH said:

mjk45 said:

Can't find the link it was along time ago but Billgates said the reason they ok'd xbox was they saw Sony's success and how much  Playstation had grown the market and Kutaragi talking about making playstation the centre of the home starting with PS2.

MS where concerned they Sony with their entertainment arms would succeed a MS home box would be a complete closed system something they didn't have with windows so they entered to stop Sony owning the home and how Sony leveraging that could impact windows.  

Thank you. That's a little bit more of an explanation. How true do you think that statement is and how much weight do you that reason truly holds to why they built the Xbox?

At the time I think it rang true , we have to remember Sony was a lot more powerful back then and where seen as a real threat ,so  a large part of MS's decision was defensive , having said that it wasn't the only  deciding factor another part was to capitalise on the growing console market. 

That was then how they feel today is any ones guess , if you ask you get answers ranging from , even if it's not the major plank it is still a key one in the business ,to it should be spun off or sold , also when it comes to the state of xbox you have x box the brand versus xbox the console , and last gen the brand included live but now it seems that you could make a case for live being more and more it's own brand.