| RolStoppable said: The point is that Microsoft scaled down investment in all areas that can help console sales. It's not a matter of "they should have invested more into this area instead of that other area", but rather that the Xbox division needed more funds from Microsoft's bosses to begin with. My comments about Sony were meant to show that Sony has adopted more of a Microsoft strategy this generation with a shift towards more marketing deals rather than investments in first party development. The number of PS4 first party game releases compared to PS3 hasn't really suffered, but that's because Sony exited the handheld market and is back to supporting only one console. |
I simply don't agree with you one that theory that sony isn't investing as much on their own first party. They are supporting one console cause they were bleeding money on the Vita, hell they couldnt even support it with enough decent software which is one of the reasons it failed. Sony downsized on a lot of things company wide.... they became more focused. And it has worked wonders for them.
As for MS, i dont really know (nor care) why what went wrong went wrong, all I was saying is that their problem can't be fixed in 2-3yrs in response to what someone was saying. I also don't even believe that the problem with the XB division has anything to do with getting more funds. We are talking about the company whose gaming division (aka Xbox) just spent billions buying minecraft. That kinda money could literally be spent building or acquiring like 10 studios. And had them all in the oven building games for the XB2 in 2020 and onwards. Instead they spent it all on one IP....... thats MS for you right there.
