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debt is the word your looking for I believe. not dept.
dept is an abbreviation for department,

debt with a b.
I would hope that all of the Microsoft bought jrpg's will release on the ps3 eventually.

software always makes money. Sony's hardware does loose them money but that is hypothetically offset by enough software sales.



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SJGohan3972 said:
Deviation59 said:
Microsoft may not be helping the 360 with their strategy... but they are hurting their competitor. That's been their primary focus this generation.

If I remember correctly that was their entire reason for entering the Video game market in the first place, they wanted to cut in on Sony's market (games) before Sony made the move to transform the PlayStation into a home computer and therefore cut in on Microsoft's market (OS's)

 

VAIO?  I don't think Sony would have made an OS just for their computer system. It's too late, too much money, etc.



They pay because they can also their brand name is still not as strong as $ony's so right now they must pay for those exclusives.



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Simple. Sony said they wanted to own the livingroom, precisely the space that media centre owned. Lost revenues on software would have been enormous. MS had no choice but to fight to keep the TV/games space their own.

That being said, it has cost MS far more than Sony since XB1 for the current 60-40 split today, far from the total destruction they wanted. The opportunity was there in 2007, but has sailed now into another gen at least. The Playstation brand is only diminished in the US, a sizeable win for MS but hardly the size of the victory needed. We'll see another gen of console war at least.



cheaper than paying to have them made.



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