xbox-done

[Fatestorm]

This is just my option, but:

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I don't understand why M$ ever thought any of that was a good idea... and I feel that M$ forgot who made the Xbox what it was. The gamers are what made the Xbox big and made it one of the best consoles out there. To me, the Xbox One is a big middle finger to all the gamers... it isn't a gaming console. It is as if they made a huge multi-media box and then at the end said 'Oh yeah, wasn't this supposed to play games too?'

Sony remembered that it is the gamer's that gave them success and the gamers that would keep them there. So kudo's to Sony and shame on you M$. You don't care about the gamers, you just care about how much money you can get to line your pockets.

This is exactly what a lot of people said after Microsoft's reveal conference. It's almost as if Microsoft used gamers to get its foot in the door with market share, then once it felt it had its feet on firm ground, then it could jettison gamers for the sake of general electronics buyers. As if Microsoft, in preparing its Xbox One, wasn't even thinking about Sony and Nintendo as competitors, but rather Apple and Google.

Maybe that's a wise business move for them in the long term, I don't know. I have no idea. What I *do* know is that it's foolish not to treat Nintendo and Sony as legitimate competition in the market *you* tried to break into, Microsoft. The decision to sell gamers out after we helped them build the very platform they're now trying to sell was, as everyone knows by now, a huge blunder on Microsoft's part, and their new console's entire sales lifetime is going to reflect that now.