2. Netflix would have approached, yes. And Sony would have said no. Why release a compeptitor's product on your platform? They only did it because a big competitor like MS added netflix, they can't ignore it. If they were the only HD console, they'd be able to use far more monopoly-like tactics. Remember the beginning of the generation, Sony's hubris - it only changed because the 360 took a decisive lead, and things had to change to stop it.

3. Let me go back a bit, I was making a few statements based on assuming knowledge of the market for the past 10 years or so. Way back, Sony said the PS3 would have a 10 year lifespan, and Microsoft said they would NOT release the 720 until after Sony released their next system. Having a system with the longer lifespan, and delaying your next release shows that your brand is strong, and doesn't need to be renewed, yet. MS's financials supported this decision, Sony's didn't, so eventually they had to turn off in this little game of chicken.

You can google any source you want about the financial history of the PS3, here's one: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/19/the-sony-reciprocal-ps3-losses-surpass-ps2-profits/

PS3's development lost more for Sony than the PS2 profited them. All the profits from the biggest console of all time - gone. All analysis of the PS3's lifetime possibilities put breaking even as Sony's BEST CASE scenario. This includes hardware, software, partnerships, and online revenue. The PS3 is profitable from one quarter to the next now, but it began it's life over $3 Billion in the hole, and it's far from making that back. (It's next few years should be it's most profitable overall, so it has the chance to break even)

The 360 is purely in the profit region now, so compared to the PS3, it is a runaway success. MS is in no hurry to see this generation end.

4) you're welcome to your opinion. I personally am not a fan of any kinect games either - but I have a lot of friends who's kids LOVE them. Not all of them are shovelware, you just don't like that type of game. The one thing I do like about kinect is it also adds voice control, making things more convenient.

True points OP but why isnt this thread locked? its a blatant attack

This was a very poorly thought out article.... It doesn't sound as if the author even bothered doing too much research...

go to apple threads..

And my point really is that they haven't contributed much to gaming and if these upcoming rumors are true of an always online xbox, that is just even worse. 

2. And Nintendo would have said No, too? nonsense. 

3. That's a 2008 article. The PS2 kept selling many more millions, and the PS3 became profitable. Again, poor sources, sorry, but that's total BS. Again, why don't we have a 720 already? according to your logic we should have it by now just like the PS3 came when the PS2 was in "pure profit region". You're just backtracking here, sorry, but it's also total BS.

4. I don't care about who loves Kinect, my point is not an opinion, it's a fact very evident in the kind of shovelware it supports.

Seems they are accepted as valid competition.

LOL, Somini really seems to fear Nextbox may steal PS4 some thunder.

MS won't quit a biz that finally managed to turn profitable with great effort, but while when it entered it it was incorrectly identifying Sony as one of the biggest threats (but they must thank Sony's shortsighted choice of putting too little RAM in PS3 and its high launch price if it didn't become a viable competing general purpose computer), now instead it's CORRECTLY identifying Google with Android and online services as the biggest competitor in the markets where it wants to expand, so it's natural that it puts more resources to fight it and less to fight Sony than in the recent past. But as gaming is an important part of PC and Mobile markets too, and XB360 and XBL are profitable, surely MS won't ever quit it, it will just concentrate less on XB exclusives and more on multiplats (obviously excluding competing console and mobile platforms, except maybe Apple ones, that MS correctly doesn't see as a threat, as as huge as it may become, Apple always sticks to its closed environment, that has some overlapping with competitors in the high end, but never deliberately clashes with them).

We only lock positive MS news