Yeah that's all well and true. I think you gotta admit though that you put zero thought into that first post.

The best comment so far .

OP. I think the 8GB stuff surprised MS.

This! Something also tells me they will go on a publisher shopping spree next gen.

No. PS4 is an evolution (of a possibly dying bred) not a revolution.

MS can (and also certainly will) match everything Sony just announced.

My concern is that, they need to do more than that. They need to do what Nintendo and Sony have now failed to do. They need to bring out a system that makes what we're playing now seem completely insufficient to meet our gaming needs.

Microsoft already knew the PS4 was a beast and they don't care to match it. Third party devs spill the beans.

What Microsoft didn't know were all the social features and those operating level features. Now they will really quickly try to shoehorn in what they didn't have already.

Of course Microsoft has nothing to worry about. Hopefully they will offer something slightly different than Sony, and hopefully they both enjoy great sales next gen.

I think the biggest threat could be lack of differentiation and a potential price war. Neither MS nor Sony really made money this Gen - certainly not the types of returns you'd throw billions into at any rate. If the market has indeed shrunk and if both offer very similar consoles they could be splitting a smaller pie in a more price sensitive time.

This gen a lot of people bought both consoles. If they are even closer together spec wise and feature wise fewer people will do that if the price is high.

If one of them decides it's a good idea to undercut the other and the other responds they may both lose money. That might also increase the number of people that buy both but buy fewer games and/or decide not to subscribe to their web services exacerbating losses. If you are using the razor blade strategy to sell consoles you better make sure that you sell enough software/services to justify the sale. In that scenario both sides would then be left trying to moneyhat exclusive titles and content which may backfire if a title is a bust. Taking on that additional risk wouldn't be ideal.

Wut? Every single one of these features was rumored months ago. Almost all of those rumors turned out 100% true. I guess MS was NOT suprised by these features.

Can I see a link to a rumor stating you can take over control of an online friends game?

So you compare Halo 4 sales to Killzone 3 sales... showing how Halo is better

Why no comparing of Forza sales and "their driving game" which is of course Gran Turismo?