Microsoft So Happy It Didn't Make a Handheld Console

[gebx]

HappySqurriel said:

gebx said:

Leni said:
Microsoft is happy, whatever happens...... why don't they give up, and focus on pc?

Hi Leni...

What console do you think 90% of Xbox 360 users would of purchased if the 360 didn't exist?? It wouldn't of been the Wii!

PS3 would have double the sales, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Halo, Dead Rising.. and so many other great games... so go ahead wish the 360 out of the market, but then you would basically get no 3rd party support on the Wii just like previous generations.

If anything you should be thanking the 360 for giving developers a great reason to ignore the PS3 and develop on the Wii

 

That's not (necessarily) true ...

Without the XBox 360 on the market, a large portion of the multiplatform and exclusive XBox 360 games would not have been released in 2006, 2007 and 2008 (and may not have been made at all); if the PS3 and XBox 360 didn't have Call of Duty 4, Devil May Cry 4, Grand Theft Auto 4, Assassin's Creed, Oblivion, Bioshock, Dead Rising, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas, Rockband and several other major third party games how well would have they been able to keep pace with the Wii?

The XBox 360 having never existed would be far more negative towards the "HD Console" market than it would be for the Wii.

I don't understand your logic of the developers not working on the PS3 because the 360 hadn't exist. If anything it would of lowered cost for them since they're just working on one platform. I get why the early games would of been launched a year later since the PS3 was a year late, but Call of Duty 4, Rock Band, Devil May Cry 4 would of been released around the same time.

"The XBox 360 having never existed would be far more negative towards the "HD Console" market than it would be for the Wii."

Its basic Sun Tzu/Art of War theories. Ask Nintendo if they would want to compete against one unified competitor or two opposing competitor beating each other up...