It's "should have been". :)

Microsoft afraid of Sony? Good joke

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The article would have been better all around had the author just deleted everything below the title and wrote "Ninjas."

Microsoft shouldn't read this article then, it might scare them even more.

I haven't read pages 2-6, but just in case nobody added this, Microsoft is not scared of Sony with regards to the video game industry. They are scared for the sake of Windows. Playstation was the intended disruptor of the windows PC, Microsoft is in the console war for that sole reason. If they can make a profit out of it eventually, that will be a bonus (although they will still try to make the most out of their gaming division nonetheless).

That article is very, very weak.

The first thing to consider is that Microsoft is breaking into Sony's market, and they're doing an amazing job.  Just one generation ago, Microsoft's console was selling a tiny fraction of Sony's console and Sony had all of the big exclusives.  Now, Microsoft is outselling Sony, got most of Sony's exclusives to be multiplat or MS exclusives, and is winning the online-content war which is more relevant today than the format war.

There are warning signs all over that article -- a whole bunch of PS3 apologizing.

 - The PS3 would have outsold the 360 had it not been delayed

 - If you align launches, PS3 sales are actually good (hint: publishers don't align launches so this is irrelevant)

 - The PS3 is the complete solution

 - PS2 sales are maintaining their pace (uh, no).

It's a matter of perspective.  This guy wants to believe the PS3 is secretly doing really well when you look at it from the correct angles.  Not that the PS3 was a huge blunder that cost Sony their huge lead in the console market.

It's quite interesting how little people are aware of what got Xbox originally started.

Start for Xbox could be seen when Sony released its Playstation, Computer Entertainment System and "the father of Playstation", Ken Kutaragi, said "i'm going to destroy Micro$oft".
When Playstation turned out to be a success, M$ saw it as a thread and offered Windows as platform for the console manufacturers. Sega was the only one to take the bait. After Dreamcast flopped, M$ did a panic manouver, by putting out Xbox to trying to counter Sonys disruption (the amount of money sank into Xbox should tell how serious the situation was. On a side note, M$ also entered the mobile phones business mainly for the same reasons, to counter potential threat of Nokia and its communicator series).

Despite what the situation currently is, between 360 and PS3, M$ knows that if Sony makes a comeback, they keep on going with the disruptive road, that's why M$ wants to focus more on hurting Sonys bottom line, than to make profit for itself (the current situation is golden for M$ in doing that). Nintendo doesn't pose a threat, atleast this gen, so it's much easier for M$ to try to hunt Sony, instead of fighting for the cash of the expanded audience with Nintendo.

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So basically anyone can publish an editorial on this site. Why does this warrant a thread?

I recall in one of MS's PR statements, they pretty much said they don't see beating the Wii, but now believe they are a firm second place.

Although I remember MS's PR (Or Bill Gate's more specifically) statement some time before that one was "We'll win this gen," and look how that turned out :P