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

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. 

If Steam is Microsofts biggest fear they are not acting like it. Its known that Microsoft tried to work with Sony because Sony was delving with their console in the multimedia marke (PS1), which they dominated with Windows. Microsoft most likely wanted their OS on every piece of Sony hardware like they did with Sega. Apparently both Sony and Nintendo told them no, thus, Microsoft is here. 

What hot new IP has Microsoft created themselves this gen that can move Xbox forward? Answer is they havent. The only genre Microsoft has been good at making from scratch is simulations which ive been playing since I was a little kid (which is before the Xbox). Gears and Halo originally came from outside, even though Microsoft demanded a genre change once they bought bungie.