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Words Of Wisdom on 23 January 2009
famousringo said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
If they got together and put all their money into assassin squads and bombs, they might just beat Nintendo... maybe.

 

Now I have visions of the entire cast of Brawl fighting an ocean of ninjas outside of Nintendo HQ, while Iwata and Miyamoto calmly look on from the rooftop.

And then the Final Smash Ball appears.



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mike_intellivision on 23 January 2009

This would only happen if MS bought Sony.

Given that Sony's market cap right now is less than Nintendo's cash reserves, anything is possible.


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Maynard_Tool on 23 January 2009

Never going to happen. We all know microsoft came into this business to stop sony.

But that would be good actually. Then all you have to do is get a wii 2 and a Xtation. And you will be done for the generation. You are not going to miss anything



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theword on 23 January 2009
__XBrawlX__ said:
Microsoft's not bleeding money... And the only reason that Microsoft is even in the Console race was to stop sony from taking over the living room...

 

 This might have been MS' real motive in the console race, but it appears that their worry about Sony taking over the living room is overblown.  As things turn out, Apple and Google are the two companies MS should have been more worried about.



Brainslug on 23 January 2009

It wouldn't increase their appeal - but the HD market wouldn't be fragmented.

It wouldn't really increase the number of games released either because most 3rd party HD games already need to be multiplatform to be able to turn a profit equivalent to what they were making last gen.



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c0rd on 23 January 2009
theword said:
__XBrawlX__ said:
Microsoft's not bleeding money... And the only reason that Microsoft is even in the Console race was to stop sony from taking over the living room...

 

 This might have been MS' real motive in the console race, but it appears that their worry about Sony taking over the living room is overblown.  As things turn out, Apple and Google are the two companies MS should have been more worried about.

That may be the case, but Apple and Google (I think) weren't nearly as big at the time. I mean, the first iPod came out just weeks before the Xbox did.


OT: In marketshare, they probably could - depending on how much money they want to lose. Sounds kinda pointless to me, if they get worse than nothing out of it. I mean, Sony and MS' losses between the 360 and PS3 have totaled something like $7 bil so far, haven't they?



Seece on 23 January 2009
Phrancheyez said:
@seece

They only have image problems because groups like Yahoo and other media nationalize faulty articles saying 'PS3 is DOOOOOMED!' In terms of the people who have it, of the people I know, I'm 10x happier with my PS3 than I am with my 360. It's nice that YOU haven't had RROD, but some of us aren't so fortunate. And knowing that they KNEW there was a problem before they released it and KNEW consoles would brick and KNEW they'd have to replace it? I don't care what the numbers say, that's a bad image. Sony hasn't done anything wrong to me, the only complaint anyone has at this point is price. If the price wasn't so high, we wouldn't even be having this argument.

Actually I was talking about Sony's arrogance more, and didn't the PS2 have high failure rates? Surely Sony would have known about them? My friend got a PS2 5 months ago and it last just over a month.

 



 

keironuk on 23 January 2009

Dang it Buck, its my turn to use the sex box! She's my sex box, and her name is Sony



Smashchu2 on 23 January 2009

Why they won't do it

Microsoft's whole goal is to stop Sony from disrupting computers. They created the Xbox to stop Sony, and it has been working. They are more concerned about destroying Sony over anything else. There would be no motivation for Microsoft to work with Sony as profits are not their goal.

Why, even if it did happen, it would not work

Sony and Microsoft can't win a battle for the expanded market. Nintendo is a company that can harness the power of a console. They make the console designed in a way that will allow the games to work on it. Nintendo is an integrated software/hardware company (much like Apple). They can make the hardware work for the games. Sony and Microsoft are not. This is why Sony focused on putting other functions in there like DVD/Blu-Ray drive. Nintendo has the upper hand in this situation, and at this point, there isn't much they can do.



Phrancheyez on 23 January 2009
johnsobas said:
The 360 had reliability problems, the PS2 also had pretty bad reliability problems, the PS1 really wasn't the most reliable product either. The xbox was really reliable, so is the PS3 so I don't see what is so different. Microsoft is totally capable or releasing reliable hardware.

 

really now?  so I guess you missed the problems with the xbox..