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McDonaldsGuy on 05 December 2017
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Errorist76 said:

Yeah, the Cell definitely was an expensive way to compensate for the NVidia chip's short-comings...and as we can see and you correctly stated, Sony has, indeed, learned from their mistakes with the PS4. Ironically it was Microsoft which needlessly overcomplicated things with the ES-Ram on the One. Which they respectively eliminated by making the X1X more like a PS4.

I simply think it's mad to assume Sony would have charged even more than that already off-putting and ridiculous price tag for the PS3 at launch. But you're right...MS have definitely brought some worthy competition for some time. It's just a bit sad I always find just as many reasons why I hate them to why I like them.

Microsoft, IMO, quit caring so much about "core" gamers with the Kinect. I became very interested in why MS got into the video game business because I have no clue why they did. Like people have mentioned, they should've did a Windows Store that resembled Steam instead. I would've canned the Xbox after the $4 billion in losses it caused to be honest. So I was always interested in WHY MS continued to the Xbox brand. To save it from embarrassment perhaps?

And this is coming from someone who likes the Xbox. I am looking at it from MS's perspective.

So here's my theory on whythe Xbox One was such an Eff up:

I have read some behind the scenes stuff, and Robbie Bach (President of Xbox division) was in the theater when Iwata introduced the Wiimote at the TGS in 2005. Robbie said he knew immediately that was a problem. Sony realized this as well and half-assed implemented motion control in the SuxAxis controller.

So Microsoft secretly changed their focus from core games. Which is why you realize that once the Kinect was released all of a sudden MS quit caring about exclusives and all that and focused mostly on that. With the initial release of the 360 they were going after PS2 gamers - which is why they made sure to lock up games like Final Fantasy XIII and Grand Theft Auto IV as day one releases.

So the Xbox One wasn't really meant to compete with the PS4, but it was meant for Kinect to get data in order to help MS with mobile/A.I. Basically, the Xbox One was created with the intent of competing with Google/Apple and not Sony. Only until after the intense E3 backlash did the Xbox One become a PS4 competitor.

So my theory is that MS quit caring much about the "core" gaming audience right when Kinect was released.