Microsoft creating yet another Monopoly?

[BabyHeadCrab]

The more and more I think about it.. the more and more obvious it becomes. In the United States.. the Xbox will dominate all. Why? you ask because it has taken america's youth balls to the walls. Before Xbox the words Halo meant nothing.. now go to 99.9 percent of highschools and nearly every boy or girl has heard of it. This worries me because of how Microsoft seems to dominate every market it touches. Formerly PS2 owned the hearts of casual playing teenagers.. this torch seems to have been handed down to the Halo'ers. I dont want this to be true or prefer Microsoft.. i'm simply looking at it from a logical prespective. FFS before Halo was around MTV didn't even care about video games.. now it's marketing them directly to the youth on national basic cable.

When I think suburban casual gamer.. I now think halo/MS :bonce:

Is this such a terrible thing? How much longer will the industry be competitive? I cant answer these questions but i'd like to hear your prespectives on the issue. It seems the same way Nintendo, Atari, and Sega introduced gaming culture to our youth.. Microsoft has stolen it. The gaming industry seems so impredictable now because it is budding similarly to the film industry in it's youth.. going in every which direction not seeming to stop for anything. The outcome will hopefully result in a free competitive market instead of a culture single handedly owned by the "huge guys", but from the way things look I fear Microsoft will not let go of it's stranglehold on the primary "casual" game audience.

 

[destrukt]

being succesfull != monopoly.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

being succesfull != monopoly.

Do you believe that the gamind industry has been monopolized? If not then when will it be and by who?

I'm just full of questions today

 

[Mr-Fusion]

Industries that require huge capital investments and skilled human resources seem to wittle down to a few major players over time. Amd vs Intel, Nvidia vs ATI, Boeing vs Airbus.

I don't think Microsoft will monoplize the console market. Sony are just too big and powerful to drop away so easily, they have comparable resources to devote to R&D and marketing. Sony's entire business culture revolves around innovating and dreaming, Microsoft's culture has evolved from stealing other peoples ideas and very successful aquisition strategies.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Industries that require huge capital investments and skilled human resources seem to wittle down to a few major players over time. Amd vs Intel, Nvidia vs ATI, Boeing vs Airbus.

I don't think Microsoft will monoplize the console market. Sony are just too big and powerful to drop away so easily, they have comparable resources to devote to R&D and marketing. Sony's entire business culture revolves around innovating and dreaming, Microsoft's culture has evolved from stealing other peoples ideas and very successful aquisition strategies.

ah. But I do think both share common characteristics with one another and have tried both of those buisiness strategies.

 

[Neutrino]

Sony controls more of the console market than microsoft does currently.

 

[Absinthe]

There's no danger of a monopoly. With the unveiling of the PS3, it's obvious there's going to be competition. And Sony and Microsoft are huge giants that will be fighting for a long time. Really, it doesn't matter which console pwns the most this current generation. They'll be in a constant battle of one-upmanship.

I don't even think Nintendo's going to drop out just yet.

 

[Gray Fox]

So what if ms controls the market, if they don't sony will, and if they don't Nintendo will. And I personally think they all suck the same. Who gives a shit.

 

[Cons Himself]

MS do have the slight advantage that the whole Internet is basically a network of Windows PCs....when console do actually full embrace online gaming that is.

the XBOX as the hub of your personal entertainment centre at home - coordinating your digital TV with your PC with your HDD HiFi. Streaming stuff from the net via your PC onto your HiFi. Purchasing movies from the net which are forwarded for you to watch in your living room off your TV. Coordinating with your PC and PPV TV company to select your viewing preferences, and recording your favourite programs to your PCs HDD, for streaming back onto the TV later.

now that would be cool.

 

[mortiz]

I don't understand where you get "monopoly" from. The XBox 360 hasn't even gone on major release yet and the XBox only sold 15 million units compared to Sony's 90 million for the PS2.

So it's not as if every kid knows what Halo is, more would probably know what Grand Theft Auto is.

 

[Kouler]

The more and more I think about it.. the more and more obvious it becomes. In the United States.. the Xbox will dominate all. Why? you ask because it has taken america's youth balls to the walls. Before Xbox the words Halo meant nothing.. now go to 99.9 percent of highschools and nearly every boy or girl has heard of it. This worries me because of how Microsoft seems to dominate every market it touches. Formerly PS2 owned the hearts of casual playing teenagers.. this torch seems to have been handed down to the Halo'ers. I dont want this to be true or prefer Microsoft.. i'm simply looking at it from a logical prespective. FFS before Halo was around MTV didn't even care about video games.. now it's marketing them directly to the youth on national basic cable.

When I think suburban casual gamer.. I now think halo/MS :bonce:

Is this such a terrible thing? How much longer will the industry be competitive? I cant answer these questions but i'd like to hear your prespectives on the issue. It seems the same way Nintendo, Atari, and Sega introduced gaming culture to our youth.. Microsoft has stolen it. The gaming industry seems so impredictable now because it is budding similarly to the film industry in it's youth.. going in every which direction not seeming to stop for anything. The outcome will hopefully result in a free competitive market instead of a culture single handedly owned by the "huge guys", but from the way things look I fear Microsoft will not let go of it's stranglehold on the primary "casual" game audience.

Youre saying it like its a bad thing. It is actually excellent that the video game industry is expanding thanks to MS