Microsoft Comments On Sony's E3 Conference
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I'd have to agree with most of that.
Sony dropped the ball here by deleting product features and not coming clean about whether online gaming will actually be "free." To say nothing of the slightly lackluster visuals (compared to the CGI they showed last year) and that groin-pulling price point.
Suddenly, Microsoft finds themselves in a nice middle ground. Because they're focused on delivering a solid GAME PLAYER instead of an all-in-one entertainment system with high-def movie capabilities, they can go about their business with capable next-gen hardware and reasonable price points. Shame about Japan, however - that's not going to help them secure support from Eastern developers.
So although MS has made plenty of mistakes of its own this gen, it's also been fairly smart about all this - and perhaps its gambles will pay off. They just need to stay the course and keep their eyes on the ball... 'cause Sony just handed them a nice chunk of marketshare.
Sony dropped the ball here by deleting product features and not coming clean about whether online gaming will actually be "free." To say nothing of the slightly lackluster visuals (compared to the CGI they showed last year) and that groin-pulling price point.
Suddenly, Microsoft finds themselves in a nice middle ground. Because they're focused on delivering a solid GAME PLAYER instead of an all-in-one entertainment system with high-def movie capabilities, they can go about their business with capable next-gen hardware and reasonable price points. Shame about Japan, however - that's not going to help them secure support from Eastern developers.
So although MS has made plenty of mistakes of its own this gen, it's also been fairly smart about all this - and perhaps its gambles will pay off. They just need to stay the course and keep their eyes on the ball... 'cause Sony just handed them a nice chunk of marketshare.
Johnny Awesome
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I totally agree. Xbox 360 is looking very good right now and MS hasn't even had their conference yet.
Ha. Wait and see what MS dish up first. MS have never ever been impressive at these things. Their PR pretty much involves saying, "what the other guy just said, we're better."
I hope they pick up a bit. Looks like this will be the first reasonably even-sides console war since the SNES days
I hope they pick up a bit. Looks like this will be the first reasonably even-sides console war since the SNES days
RancidLunchmeat
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We had some interesting discussions throughout the past months about what needed to happen for Sony to lose market share this generation.
I believe it came down to pricing, exclusives, and functionality.
It seems to me that the pricing issue has already happened, Sony also didn't deliver on their promised functionality and have lost functionality from last generation (rumble/feedback). If it is announced that MS has 'stolen' a big time exclusive from Sony, we'd have satisifed all the criteria that was outlined by people who didn't believe Sony could lose market share unless A+B+C all happened.
The other interesting thing.. from the Sony press conference it's clear that they are the ones reacting to MS. Not the other way around. So for all their billions of dollars of loss, and for their marketshare which wasn't overly impressive, they've still managed to jump into the business and force the market leader to react to them.
I'd say that's pretty impressive.
I believe it came down to pricing, exclusives, and functionality.
It seems to me that the pricing issue has already happened, Sony also didn't deliver on their promised functionality and have lost functionality from last generation (rumble/feedback). If it is announced that MS has 'stolen' a big time exclusive from Sony, we'd have satisifed all the criteria that was outlined by people who didn't believe Sony could lose market share unless A+B+C all happened.
The other interesting thing.. from the Sony press conference it's clear that they are the ones reacting to MS. Not the other way around. So for all their billions of dollars of loss, and for their marketshare which wasn't overly impressive, they've still managed to jump into the business and force the market leader to react to them.
I'd say that's pretty impressive.
Well i wouldnt coronate MS yet but after the first 2 press conferences I would say its MS' E3 to lose now. The first 2 were pretty underwhelming and just reiterated what we've known. If MS has any big surprises up their sleeve they could very well make the biggest splash this year, who'd a thunk it!
scooby_dooby
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I think they pretty much have it sealed up with: Too Human, Blue Dragon, Gears of War and Halo 3. Everything else is just icing...
Is there much scope for MS to present stuff not already known? PS3's price, confirmed HDD as standard and tilt controllers seem quite big stories to trump, when you consider this was always an E3 more about the software as the hardware was shown last year.expletive said:
Shifty Geezer said:
Just games, but something like WoW (not that i personally think WoW is a boon to consoles) or GTA exclusvity would certainly be bigger news than we've gotten from the other conferences.
Or of course as LY says, what Halo 3 *is* could be huge in and of itself. ( I think there will be an MMO component along with SP and multi...)
RancidLunchmeat
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RancidLunchmeat said:
Well, there goes that. Can't wait to revisit the 'how can Sony "the market leader" lose enough market share to no longer be the industry leader" conversations.
Funny thing is.. didn't Sony have to know all this was going to happen prior to today?
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