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Unread postby icycalm » 23 Nov 2018 17:19

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/rumor-mi ... -253594676

StreetsofBeige wrote:And right now, MS is the BMW of gaming. It has the highest priced unit and the best looking games. It even has side features like BC and a 4k drive.

Now for next gen, who knows if MS or Sony will be the top dog with the priciest and best performing unit in 2019 or 2020 (likely not Nintendo given their track record).

Your developer part doesn't even make sense. Most third party games are multiplatform, with the PC version being the best (assuming someone has a good rig), then X, then Pro, the PS4 OG and last is Xbox One OG. A Switch version will be at/near the bottom, but does have the unqiue feature of being portable. This path of best to worst holds true the majority of the time.

MS has conceded. At least the last 10 years. Since Lost Oddysey and Blue Dragon, they basically ditched Japanese partnered games. Only recently has there been some blurbs about MS courting Asian gaming conferences or PR (something like that).

As for MS having an awesome vision, who knows. Maybe they don't really care that much. Their gaming division is the worst one in terms of sales and profits. When a company earns about $20 billion in profits per year and the gaming division might scrape up $100 million of it, who cares.

Sony is different. Their divisions have done so poorly the last 10-15 years, their gaming division is probably their best division (along with that insurance arm). If Sony's gaming division sinks, so does probably half the company's profits. If Xbox disappears, it probably wouldn't even affect their quarterly EPS (earnings per share) when they do wall street results.
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