S.T.A.G.E. said:
They wanted to put their OS on the Playstation from the very beginning. Nintendo and Sony both told them no. He is onto something. If Sony and Nintendo both let Microsoft have their OS they would probably drop the console division all together. |
And Sony wanted to take advantage of Nintendo´s position to get into the Video game market which was an important image factor for that company at the time. They all do it for their own selfish reasons, and I am pretty sure MS wouldn´t be in the hardware business if their OS had been on those platforms. That doesn´t change the fact that they ARE in the hardware business now and has realized how important the XBox brand is for reaching out to different demographics and expanding the Windows 10 platform. I do think they want to go the Steam route, where XBox is the platform, while the hardware is made by different producers.
