| shams said: MS never entered the vg industry for profit. They were afraid of Sony "owning the living room" - that is, in terms of digital media. Both MS & Sony are moving further away from games, and closer to developing digital media solutions. This is what both the 360/PS3 are designed around (the CELL is almost completely designed around media processing caps - rather than purely games). At some point in the future, all comms (video, TV, music, phone, etc..) will happen through these digital devices - and neither company can let the other dominate. This is essential to the long-term strategy of both companies, and core to their other product lines. Nintendo is the only company developing a "pure" games machine (that has some multimedia functionality - rather than the other way around), and are reaping the rewards. |
Geez, this argument is just ridiculous. Yes, Microsoft wants to push charging for online games, anything Windows related, and now downloading movies and tv shows on their own network. Yes, Sony wants to use the PS3 to promote blu-ray as it did with the PS2 and PS1 for DVDs and CDs respectively. Sony also wouldn't mind selling more hdtvs.
However, both Microsoft and Sony know that they must provide games to be successful with a game console. Sony is getting some PS3 sales from blu-ray fans because it was the cheapest and best blu-ray player for awhile, but that time is up. They now have a $500 player and no $500 PS3. Games sell the game consoles. I'm not sure why people act like Nintendo is the only company that understands that. Despite pushing other things, what did Bill Gates say would be released the same time the PS3 was launched? Halo 3. Yeah, he was way off, but why would he say that? Oh yeah, because they know games are important.
Sony is probably the 2nd or 3rd best studio with Nintendo being the best. Why is that? Because they know games sold the PS1 and PS2. Yes, having other features is great and helps sell the overall product, but ultimately they know they need the games to succeed.
It's like you're trying to say Sony and Microsoft have stopped making games. God of War doesn't exist in the future. Microsoft didn't pay $50 million for exclusive GTA content in march 08. Why would Microsoft do that? Games matter, and everyone knows it.
Just because Nintendo as a company only deals with games does not mean that Sony and Microsoft are losing focus on the games. They are trying to provide a complete experience that adds to the videogame machine, are using different methods, but ultimately it all involves games. Every feature added is about games.
