RolStoppable said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
I saw this before the current generation even started. With the original Xbox MS exclusives consisted of Sega games, and ported PC titles. PS2 couldn't and didn't get any of MS's games simply because PS2 wasn't powerful enough to play them at the time. When gen 7 started the 360 had the same advantage. Games like Oblivion, Bioshock, and Mass Effect were still exclusive to the Xbox brand. Sony slowly recovered from it's early PS3 mistakes and started getting these games too. Once that happened Microsoft had lost most of it's exclusive franchises. Around the time that MGSIV came out the writing was already on the wall. Sony was getting all the non-nintendo exclusives developed in the east, and all the western developed AAA games to boot.
So there we were with Microsoft in a bad position towards the end of gen 8. And how did they choose to recover from this position? They announced the XB1 would be $100 more than the competition with possible DRM the likes of which not even PC gets.
The console war between Sony and MS ended with the XB1 reveal. We've just been watching a slaughter ever since. MS is in just as bad a position right now as Nintendo was with the N64.
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That's not what I am talking about. What I am saying is that Microsoft won't make another attempt and they aren't interested anymore. Microsoft's two reasons for entering the console business do not exist anymore and consoles in and of themselves can only provide peanuts profits in comparison to what Microsoft as a whole is after. Sony's endgame died and so did Microsoft's.
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Sony's endgame died? Explain.
Yeah MS got into the bussiness to ward off Sony from intruding on their PC bussiness right? Also I agree that MS is after "games as a service" type profits, and that they won't try to launch another console after Scorpio.
