Is Microsoft about to shoot itself in the foot?
In an apparent mirror to our post from yesterday, Game Industry Biz has delivered an editorial on Microsoft’s move
to be first to market with the next Xbox. One thing is certain, the console space is about to shift drastically. The
tremors feel like a shake-out, and if anyone is going to get shaken out it will, most likely, be MS. The
editorial presents a solid perspective of today’s market, and where MS thinks they need to go. It makes sense
to get to market first. But only if you believe that Sony’s dominance of this generation is due to the early release of
the PS2. What this point-of-view fails to see is that Sega’s Dreamcast was actually first to market. And we all know
what happened to them. Sony is on top because they rode out the last generation of consoles with a deep library
— and then made the PS2 backward-compatible. MS doesn’t have the depth of an exclusive titles to pull from. But
the most chilling question is this one — if MS releases a product early, will developers be willing to port
their titles from the PS2 or Gamecube to a whole new architecture?
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