Thread: High probability the PS3 will fail
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Old 11-12-2006, 11:19 AM   #26 (permalink)
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How would the PS3 failing be bad for gaming?
Well, it would mean that Microsoft lost one of it's major competitors. And without competition, companies become complacent with their current offerings and don't have to work as hard on development and new features and such.

Case in point, when IE finally put Netscape under in the browser wars, Microsoft sat back and didn't do a darn thing with IE for years. Then came Firefox and people started using it, they started taking market share away from IE. They developed things like Tabbed Browsing, they put in things like pop-up blockers right into the web browser. After a while, MS decided that they had to do something similar with IE or risk losing more market share. So, now IE has functionality like a built in pop-up blocker and tabbed browsing.

So, if it weren't for competition, we might not be where we are today with consoles.

I for one want Sony to succeed in a big way...it will just push MS to develop this Xbox further and make it better.
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