| Machiavellian said: This is where you do not understand. MS does not care about what you care about. Its not like this is the first rodeo. MS cannot be more clear about their direction and I really struggle to understand why it's so hard to understand. MS does not care about hurting console sales. They stopped caring about hurting console sales when they put day one all their first party games on PC. If MS cared about hurting their console market, they would push everything through a marketing department which they do not. I just do not see any mix message. MS has pretty much always from the get go that GP is their future. They have invested everything into it and all their moves have been towards making it successful. Yes, the Xbox console is a biproduct of that direction, but you can believe MS did not pay 69 billion dollars for Xbox. They paid 69 billion dollars for GP and the future of their services within the gaming space. Also, you are taking this statement way to literally. What a person wants and what can be achieved is 2 different things. Phil would love to purchase Nintendo, it's probably never going to happen but if by some luck or act of GOD the opportunity happens, MS would take advantage of it. It's the same with GP. MS would love to put GP on everything but achieving that isn't going to happen the way the market is today. That does not mean the market will remain this way forever because MS themselves is trying to disrupt the market. So in my opinion the message cannot be any clearer. MS will do whatever it takes to make GP a success. They will pour huge amounts of resources at the problem because gaming, not just console gaming but gaming in general is a huge market and they want to be competitive in all areas but mostly they want GP to be the service of choice for all areas of gaming. |
These two statements literally contradict each other. If Microsoft didn't care about console sales, which is something that gets bring up a lot for some reason, they wouldn't sell any hardware at all.
