Well, neither does Phil Spencer, but that doesn't prevent him for talking nonsense in public. Why would any one of us be better?

Why would PhD and owning a company give absolute proof to anyones word? Should anyone who do not have those two merits you mentioned shut outside of any business conversation? Simple proof of PhD does not make anyone immune to misunderstanding. There are a lot of people who have no business education at all but have still managed to find success in stock market. Were all these people just lucky? Or could it be possible those people figured out on their own how business works?

I hope gamers realize if Marketshare doesn't matter, he just said that Microsoft is not letting the Xbox division tap into the warchest. So much for those infinite powers of the Microsoft warchest rumors. That leaves more doubt than marketshare.

You can't have it both ways. Either market share matters, or Microsoft is pulling the reins on the Xbox divisions budget.

Precisely Protendo-San. Both options cannot exist at the same time; Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo irrelevant. If anything, this is interesting to me how Spencer-Sensei brings up such issues, but Yoshida-Sensei never did during the 7th generation era. I still like Spencer-Sensei, but it was odd of him to say such statements.

Or maybe they never spent or planned on spending infinite amount of money on Xbox division. They're doing business after all. Strong lineup for holidays and couple of deals made + plans on focusing 1st party.. Maybe no need to pay alot for COD.

It's possible, but why go against their long established past presedent now?

Well I suppose getting outsold 2:1 is an indication they need to re-think their strategy even further :) I think focusing on 1st party exclusives is a way to go so they can at least try to keep up with Sony, build up their userbase, sell more consoles and make profit.

MS has to do what SCE did with the PS3. By no surprise, it is essentially what they are doing with the XBO.

They dropped the price by $100 within the first year. PS4 is still sitting on its debut MSRP, bundled software regardless.

They have been far more consistent with OS updates and added features. PS4 has taken what could best be described as a leisurely approach to added features.

As for the first party support; we'll see how well MS can deliver on that beyond the usual IPs that were a given.

I would like to see the data/evidence that supports the claim that SCE is buying third party games the way MS bought Tomb Raider. It's hard to refute claims without examining the evidence.

It seems far more probable that third party developers would simply prefer to develop for the hardware that has over half of the installed user base in addition to running multiplatform games better in most instances.

You don't need a business degree but rather common sense to know that marketshare gives a person sway that money cannot buy. Besides...Sony couldn't outbid Microsoft if they tried. Done deal.

Microsofts biggest deals from last gen came from moneyhatting which was allowed because of their marketshare.