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I may not like MS very much, but they have at least shown they are willing to invest in their consoles both with their console architecture, user interface, online infrastructure, and third-party relationships.



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consoles <> operating systems



fuck this thread



this thread smells of the bathroom after i've just taken a shit.



this isnt an industry where everyone else produces garbage. so your entire thought process can be summed up in the first line... you HATE microsoft. thats just rather pathetic.



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toastboy44562 said:
fuck this thread

 

simple and true +1



Microsoft shouldn't win because you hate it. What a well reasoned argument.



Onour11 said:

Why?Because I hate MS?...Why should I?

Because of the gaming industry? I don't give a damn about all the losses-money thing....

Because of the gaming community?Exactly...

Past 2 generations was Sony's monopoly but we saw a lot of nice games and played them (Such as res evil-gow-ico etc.)

But I don't think it would be same if those generations was MS's monopoly.Why?Because they want Windows to be everything.And they do not want consoles to replace it.As many of the gamers know after a big war of consoles there is always a monopoly.Now we are witnesses of a war going between Sony-MS(I don't count nintendo cuz that's different) do you think in the next generation this war will go again?I don't think so.

In conclusion if MS can ''conquer'' the console gaming such as Sony did in past 2 generations they will not only have all the console gaming but also the pc gaming.Which means 'massive monopoly' and not good for us gamers.(And this could be very end of the console gaming if you like apocalyptic tales....well just a theory:D)

So these are my thoughts.I just wanted to share them with you.You can disagree if you want.And sorry for bad english...

I think that you aren't understanding that a monopoly is bad if it's held by ANY company:

Nintendo (late 80's, early 90's) - Employed horrendous tactics to ensure 3rd parties never developed on other platforms, and forced retail stores to carry Nintendo products only.

Sony - Forced retail stores to drop used games to court favor with devs (among other things).

Any monopoly - Nintendo, Sony, or MS would inevitably be bad. It would sqash innovation, and cause issues.

But the fact is, Microsoft has done so much good for developers. They've made very easy-to-utilize hardware and SDKs for the developers, and have also been the spearhead of the Digitally Distributed content system for consoles, which is helping independant developers make games for systems that would otherwise get turned down by Sony and Nintendo.

You can argue what Microsoft would do if they were #1, which may, or may not happen. But at the same time, Nintendo, with the DS and Wii aren't exactly going to play nice when they're #1 either.

And the fact is, although we saw "great" games on the PS1/2 that were awesome, fantastic games weren't built because of the Sony Playstation - They were built in spite of it, in some ways. The PS2 archatecture was notorious for being hard to work with, which I am sure caused many developers to go overbudget with their designs (sound familiar?) - And of course, that's not forgetting that we saw great games on the Gamecube, Dreamcast, and Xbox last generation that were equally innovative.

 



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

something tells me a nintendo one is going to be made next



lol, well, Microsoft is not wining by any means. What they have done, is forced Sony to put a HD in there console, forced Sony to make PSN, and forces a video card into the system (they were just going to use the Cell).

The PS3 is what it is because of Microsoft, and everyone wins.