That's just wrong. Microsoft's mission is simple. Windows Everywhere. They have enhanced and added products to support or keep this mission... XBox is one of those products.

Sony isn't innovative... What's so great about PS3? Faster processor with more cores? Faster graphic chip? A Blu-Ray drive? All are improvements on existing ideas... Wii innovated this round... Motion control that works.

Also, every company exists solely to make money. Without profit no company can continue. Investors who expect returns fund these companies. Any thought otherwise is ridculous and uniformed. They will only build what they think they can sell. They cut any products that don't sell.

Microsoft is not significantly different then Sony or Apple. Just better at executing and more aggressive.

Isn't the goal of every company to make money?

So the PS3 is the only thing Sony has ever made...

Besides that point, the PS3 pushes a new technology, the Cell Processor. The definition of innovation is "something new or different introduced", as a result the PS3 is an innovative product.

Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo is in business for one primary reason, and one reason only: To generate revenue.

Not revenue, profit.

Yup, was just copying the thread starters words.

I agree, HOME is 2nd life, and Little big planet is that ds game that you draw something and you play as it.

Yes ofcourse microsoft does not innovate at all, I mean bringing the PC, and an a amazing online community as well as online market place is no innovation.

Apple either, changing the way we listen to music forever is not innovative its stolen from nintendo.

Everybody steals from nintendo, because they are the only innovative company.

Every company's mission is to make money, some are just better at it than others.

Sony invented:
The Camcorder
The CD
The videocassette
mobile music (the walkman was revolutionary for its day)

And most people are not in business to just make money. They want to make money off a product. When a car manufacturer CEO gets excited about something, it probably is a car. What makes most driven men tick is a passion for there chosen field. Yes, they want to make money, but they want to do it while doing what they love. Making money is what Bill loves. The software they develop is just an avenue to make that happen.

It's not a bad aspiration in life, it's only bad when people think Microsoft's motivations lie elsewhere.

I was always under the impression that it was actually Philips that truly pioneered the CD as a media. At the time, Sony was trying to create a disk based system using existing Laserdisk tech, when Philips brought them their work; a much smaller, more compact disc that held far more information then Sony was aiming for. The two formed a partnership and thus the CD was born.

Whilst Sony did in fact help to pioneer and perfect the CD and CD players, they were not the inventors of it, that was Philips.

Or at least that's what I had been taught all those years ago.