Power On: The Story of Xbox

[mjk45]

EricHiggin said:

mjk45 said:

What you got all that from Bills misplaced fear of the rise of all in one home multimedia centre being a game console rather than what it turned out to be.

If XB1 took the same kind of step that PS3 took, beyond gaming, then ya, PS4 and now PS5 being far closer to PC's in their capability wouldn't be out of the question by any means. 

Maybe SNY would've stopped at media and left PC's alone, but that seems kinda unlikely. Where would they have grown from that point? MS got into console, entertainment, digital online (bundle) services, so why wouldn't SNY had tried to offer what PC OS and software could?

Nin got too cocky with the Wii, which led to the Wii U, that was a marketing disaster, which didn't turn out great.

SNY got too cocky about becoming the future of computing, starting with PS2 but mostly with PS3, which didn't turn out great.

MS got too cocky with 360, then trying to do what PS3 did with XB1, though cheaper, yet at the gamers expense, which didn't turn out great.

I guess the real question is, could SNY actually have succeeded in an all in one computing device even if MS didn't enter the console market?

Based on the outcome of PS3 and XB1, was it really the push beyond gaming and pricing that was the problem? Without MS, would SNY have had to retreat to a PS4 like gaming focused console regardless?

I'd say if SNY were to have pushed for that, without MS in the picture, they would've likely had little choice but to offer multiple tiered SKU's like MS has started to do.

MS move into consoles didn't stop the rise of the all in one device replacing the PC it simply wasn't going to happen in that form it was a combination of Bill's crystal ball gazing being off and him believing Kens hyperbolic statements about the PS2 and it's multimedia capabilities while the public didn't follow on till it received a more compelling case and that arrived with smart phones.