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Snoopy on 12 March 2017
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
LudicrousSpeed said:

You must not understand what "ushered into the industry" means, because Nintendo supported consoles for over a decade well before Sony did. That's a lot of text you just typed that does nothing to sway these three simple facts:

1. Sony did not invent the 10 year plan.
2. Sony in fact will abandon a console long before 10 years if there's no money in it, aka Vita.
3. These are all businesses and the dollar is the bottom line. The plain and simple fact is as long as there's money to be made, any of these companies will support their older platforms.

Microsoft supported the 360 so long because it made them money. Had zero to do with Sony, hate to break it to you :(

1. It doesnt matter whether Sony invested the ten year profiitability plan

2l They  stated the plan will be in use for ALL of their home consoles. ( Is the vita a home console?) It has since became a primary factor in their longevity of support for their gamers which was unique traditionally to them until the Xbox 360 came.

3. Its obvious that the dollar is the bottom line, hence why Sony created the plan. Sony takes risks using new formats in the consoles and waits to turn profit. Whats Microsofts excluse for keeping the Xbox One going for 12 years?

4. Microsoft supported the 360 because it was not pulling away from Sony and as Sony gathered profit, they needed to keep pressure on them. While the money the 360 makes is great, its not really that impressive for Microsoft as a corporation.  Again, gaming is not their end all be all (hence why they dont act like it).

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Wrong, UWP is a big thing for them. Sony is probably not Microsoft's biggest fear. It is steam. If steam OS ever becomes a thing and people choose to game on that over windows os Microsoft will lose a good percentage of their windows user base. Microsoft has been expanding not only in hardware, but in recent years they are making more games than we have ever gotten from them.