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Have Microsoft solidified themselves as a gaming giant equal to Sony?

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jarrod said:
Hus said:
xxmob said:


Microsoft > Sony ( Microsoft as a whole is probably one of the biggest names out there.)

Highly doubt it.

Its simply ask some older people (not computer capable) which is many what MS is and many would anwser they don't know, ask what Sony is and they will anwser TVs. 

How old are you?  My grandmother's computer literate, I think you're a bit behind the times...

25, both my parents dont even know how to use computers.  Most uncles are the same, gf parents same.  Much of the world has not grow up with computers for the past two decades.

 



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Hus said:
xxmob said:


Microsoft > Sony ( Microsoft as a whole is probably one of the biggest names out there.)

Highly doubt it.

Its simply ask some older people (not computer capable) which is many what MS is and many would anwser they don't know, ask what Sony is and they will anwser TVs. 

are you sure my 94 year old great grandmother has a pc. I dont know about you but came on you want me to find 90 year olds that never used a computer before or haven't seen electronics in the past 25 years...... thats going to be hard 




Severance said:
Hus said:
LOL

well that explains everything, dude don't quote me. Just leave it be. Argue away with some one else.

hey don't be mean , just because someone isn't old enough doesn't mean they HAVE to know everything that happened ages ago.

They don't have to, but if they don't know they should learn to STFU.



jarrod said:
Severance said:

SCE is the biggest first party video game company

 

PSP is the most successful portable gaming device that isn't made by Nintendo.

I'm not quite sure, but I think Nintendo may be larger than SCE now.  It's hard to nail down exact employee counts for SCE given their fractured setup.

And really, iPhone/iPod Touch is the most successful gaming device not made by Nintendo.

Iphone isn't a gaming device.

NGage is a gaming device.

yeah i brought that out because they're both cell phones but one is made to be mainly a phone and the other is mainly gaming device.

and SCE is the biggest first party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_divisions_of_Nintendo (Go down to "Development Studios" and look at the "internal" list)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment (go to "Internally Owned Studios")

yeah even though they're bigger, they seriously suck at marketing , Normal people don't know any First party studio (Or SCE) , but EVERYONE knows nintendo.



I live for the burn...and the sting of pleasure...
I live for the sword, the steel, and the gun...

- Wasteland - The Mission.

Hus said:
jarrod said:
Hus said:
xxmob said:


Microsoft > Sony ( Microsoft as a whole is probably one of the biggest names out there.)

Highly doubt it.

Its simply ask some older people (not computer capable) which is many what MS is and many would anwser they don't know, ask what Sony is and they will anwser TVs. 

How old are you?  My grandmother's computer literate, I think you're a bit behind the times...

25, both my parents dont even know how to use computers.  Most uncles are the same, gf parents same.  Much of the world has not grow up with computers for the past two decades.

 

Do they watch TV?  I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea.



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jarrod said:

Do they watch TV?  I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea.

Ask your self how many people live in NA that don't even speak English, id say a hell of a lot. 

 



Severance said:
jarrod said:
Severance said:

SCE is the biggest first party video game company

 

PSP is the most successful portable gaming device that isn't made by Nintendo.

I'm not quite sure, but I think Nintendo may be larger than SCE now.  It's hard to nail down exact employee counts for SCE given their fractured setup.

And really, iPhone/iPod Touch is the most successful gaming device not made by Nintendo.

Iphone isn't a gaming device.

NGage is a gaming device.

yeah i brought that out because they're both cell phones but one is made to be mainly a phone and the other is mainly gaming device.

and SCE is the biggest first party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_divisions_of_Nintendo (Go down to "Development Studios" and look at the "internal" list)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment (go to "Internally Owned Studios")

yeah even though they're bigger, they seriously suck at marketing , Normal people don't know any First party studio (Or SCE) , but EVERYONE knows nintendo.

iPhone's a gaming device at this point. It wasn't made with that intention (like NGage) but that's where the market's taken it (unlike NGage).

And you can't just look at studio divisions to determine size (something would would actomatically favor the more fractured structure of SCEWWS versus the internal structure of NCL), you have to look at company size and employee count.   Nintendo employs "over 4000" people at last count, I can't find a solid figure for SCE for comparison (though SCEJ accounts for 1,300).  Nintendo actually also releases more games than SCE, though not all are made internally (in either case).



xxmob said:

are you sure my 94 year old great grandmother has a pc. I dont know about you but came on you want me to find 90 year olds that never used a computer before or haven't seen electronics in the past 25 years...... thats going to be hard 

Yes every one is like you.  360 is doing well in NA thus it must be doing great all over the world.

Why can't Americans look past them selfs ?

 



Hus said:
Severance said:
Hus said:
LOL

well that explains everything, dude don't quote me. Just leave it be. Argue away with some one else.

hey don't be mean , just because someone isn't old enough doesn't mean they HAVE to know everything that happened ages ago.

They don't have to, but if they don't know they should learn to STFU.

thats still mean, noone is born genius.

do you know about what happened in the 70s? to me the daddy of gaming is not Sony nor Nintendo its Atari, why? because thats the first console i own and Playstation and NES didn't exist when that was released. (of course i am 21 can't say i bought it on launch date )



I live for the burn...and the sting of pleasure...
I live for the sword, the steel, and the gun...

- Wasteland - The Mission.

Hus said:
jarrod said:
 

Do they watch TV?  I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea.

Ask your self how many people live in NA that don't even speak English, id say a hell of a lot. 

 

lol.  Most foreigners I've met personally speak english as well actually.

Also, I think you're severely undersestimating just how pervasive Windows actually is.  In 2007 Microsoft announced they had reached an installed base of 1 billion active Windows users.  For comparison, that's more Windows users than there are automobiles on roads.  And they expect Windows to double that userbase to 2 billion by 2015.

And actually, for those non-english speakers you like me to think about, Windows has official support for 126 languages with 178 dialects (and growing).