Hidden Microsoft Strategy ?

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Ackmed Tepish said:
Microsofts strategy: Cock Block Sony's gaming income.

Notice how Microsoft has made little to no attempt to compete with Nintendo, they only try to disrupt Sony market. Sony is one of their international competitors in many areas and gaming was one market that Sony had free reign over to saturate their income beyond all other markets. Strategy: Impeed Sony's gaming income to prevent them from being stronger in other markets where Microsoft competes with them directly. As we said in convo here, what does Microsoft have to gain in gaming? Disc formats? Or HD? Did it ever occur to anyone here that there only goal in gaming was to impeed Sony's income? Why didn't they make a portable? Because Nintendo was already beating Sony there. Nintendo wasn't beating Sony at console though. Maybe they make a portable now since that is only market Sony is still floating in (a high graphic portable that would cut PSP sales in half or by a third but leave DS relatively untouched), but back then during PS2, it was not even an issue wheing comparing to PS2 success vs PSP success. Microsoft was backing Sega originally as an early mean to combat PlayStation's success but when Dreamcast died they had to take action.

Don't let Bill Gate fool you. Microsoft not want to be king of gaming, they just want Sony capped and limited if not out of the game altogether.

I remember reading something (I think it was by JohnLucas?) that was saying that they're (Microsoft) only in it (gaming market)  to try and avert Sony's dominances of the gaming market. As Microsoft saw that sony was trying to take it towards more of a media centre, rather than just a console, and if that happened, there would be no need for media centre PCs (which ironically Sony sell), you'd just have your games console, especially as there's no need for an expensive monitor, you just use your existing TV.

And of course if that happened, then that would mean less income for Microsoft, as less PCs would be being sold. And so they're after Sony (and Nintendo now to an extent) to prevent that. Ever wonder why the 360 is the only console without a web-browser, when people are enjoying browsing on their Wii or PS3? Yes, they're making sure that anyone who has a 360, still needs a PC in their living room to a certain extent. And with the Wii now having internal storage, a web-browser, and possible DVD playback in the future, the Wii and PS3 have practically eliminated the need for a media PC, especially when the Wii is a lot cheaper, and the PS3 is on average slightly cheaper, plus they are games consoles, unlike the media PC you'd get for that price (even the PS3's), which would be pretty awful for playing games.