What Microsoft should do to stay competitive.

[EricHiggin]

Azzanation said:

Pemalite said:

It is a lie.

How can you straight-faced lie and claim that the market is unable to support 3 competitors when in the 7th gen we had:

1) Wii @ 101.63 million consoles sold.
2) Xbox 360 @ 84 million consoles sold.
3) Playstation 3 @ 87.4 million consoles sold.

Combine that with the:
1) DS @ 154.02 million consoles sold.
2) PSP @ 80/82 million consoles sold.

They are all healthy numbers.

How can you straight-faced lie and claim that the market is unable to support all 3 competitors when they have all been competing since 2001 when the Original Xbox entered the market?

That's literally almost a quarter of a century worth of competition.

8th console generation:
1) Nintendo Switch @ 137.4 million consoles sold.
2) Playstation 4 @ 117.4 million consoles sold.
3) Xbox One @ 58 million consoles sold.

All three platforms were profitable and successful.

So again... How can you blatantly lie that it's unsustainable? Microsoft with the worst selling console still made a profit.

Either way, Microsoft has committed to continue to compete against Sony and Nintendo for at-least another decade and a half... So obviously they see their business as sustainable, which contradicts your position empirically.

Because its a very simple concept to understand. 1 has to hurt out of the 3. Hurt also doesnt mean losing money. It also means growth. You know, pleasing the shareholders.  

Atari hurt when Sega entered. 

Sega hurt when Sony entered.

Nintendo hurt when Xbox entered.

Sony hurt when Xbox competed.

7th Gen, 360 and PS3 lost billions, almost killing them buisness wise.

The next two generations, 8th and 9th Gen, Xbox struggles with growth. if they turn it around and become the market leader, that would hurt Sony.

Do you see the point yet? Instead of flagging lies, how about do some research on the buisness front of these systems. 

All three brands cannot be super successful without one falling. Weather thats sales wise or buisness wise.

As the saying goes, if you're not winning, you're losing. That is the case here with consoles, even if XB profits are growing.

You can only milk the same cow so much. Eventually you need more cows.

This was said over and over tonight in the podcast. XB needs to grow gaming or eventually they're going to 'run out of milk'.

The console pie really hasn't grown much for decades. Continually splitting the pie isn't sustainable, especially if you keep getting a smaller slice.