(Business Perspective) Does MS really need Xbox Hardware?

[zeldaring]

Azzanation said:

zeldaring said:

Ps2 basically dominated the market for sony for them there was no competition That's why did what ever they wanted with ps3. when competition is healthy gamers win. just look at nintendo and how greedy they were when they thought they owned the market they wanted to stick to carts and treated third party's like crap.

Does not matter. With competition we still have these companies taking advantage of you. We have only had 1 modern Generation that was considered healthy across the board interms of competition, however that healthy competition only looked good for the consumers, business wise, the PS3 lost $5b and the 360 lost $4b. Those consoles almost killed the brands themselves. 

You can pretend having competition is helping, all you want, the reality is it isn't. Nintendo, Sony and Xbox have all tried to cheat you while competing with eachother. Meanwhile on PC, its mainly run by Steam for gaming. Now compare Steam to the console industry. Which ecosystem actually offers the best value to its customers. Is it the 3 big one's competition in the console market or the 1 that basically is a monopoly on PC? 

I think this is a ridiculous take. Let's say wii dominated the console market and killed Xbox and ps then we would have been stuck with crap hardware for decades. Same with Xbox one if it was the only console we would have been forced to buy kinect 2, much weaker hardware then ps4 and online games only. competition is always good for the consumer.  now with out competition ps6 could be online only and much weaker and there would be no other home console option.