Comments on: Why Microsoft should acquire Sony's gaming division

Don Reisinger thinks Microsoft should acquire Sony's gaming division and Sony should want to accept the deal. What do you think?

[Kwasiowusu]

juuken2 , now why don't you get off yo momma's computer, and go play with your little toys? You are talking like a retarded 5 year old.
Meanwhile, the PS3 keeps getting destroyed every week by the Wii in the Japanese sales charts, even though Sony is japanese. No amount of mindless PS3 fanboy drivel is going to change that. Now be a good boy andrun along will ya?

[Raist3d]

This article is one of the most far fetched and somewhat uninformed things I have read here on CNET. I don't quite know where to begin.

For instance, Sony is far and away a much bigger force in Europe than Microsoft, and I am talking including the PS3 here. And that Sony's gaming division is not important to the company is one of the most shortsighted -analyst type comments I have ever read. They give a very high priority to their game division.

As for making money, Microsoft's gaming division as a whole is still in the red since Xbox 1.

Anyway, both companies will continue on their plans.

- Raist

[ozps3]

One question Don Reisinger why didnt this article come out a year ago and why now? Could it be that XBOTS and sony haters can see the end of XB360 with killer games coming out for PS3 from their 1st party studios. So now its Microshaft should buy out sony Studios ? SO I take it its like a confirmation that Xbots can also recognise Killer titles coming out for PS3 from 1st Party Sony studios.

[Kwasiowusu]

juuken2 , here is a suggestion Why don't you get off yo momma's computer and go play with ya kiddie toys, and stop making a nuisnace of yourself?
Then sit back and watch the PS3 get clobbered but good by the 360 in Jaoan, when the Media Create figures come out.

[staticks]

Hey, Kwasiowusu, keyword is PS3 is getting destroyed by NINTENDO WII, a JAPANESE system, in Japan. The 360 is not going to do anything to PS3 in Japan, because the perception by Japanese people is that the Xbox is an American system, with games catered to Western audiences. That's the perception, and regardless of reality, that perception will not change. Japanese people will continue to largely ignore and dismiss the Xbox systems and brand, and the PS3 will continue to dominate the Western-made Xbox in Japan by a large margin, regardless of small boosts by a few new XB360 JRPGs here and there. This is an undeniable fact.

[Kwasiowusu]

The 360 has been selling around the 5000 mark for the past 6 weeks, even before Tales was relsaed this week. The 360 has another 2 JRPG's coming out in August and September. The PS3 has no system moving maes coming up in the next 2 months. I'd say the 360 will b very competitive with the PS3 for the next few months.

[juuken2]

And the 360 is getting DESTROYED by the Wii so what the **** is your point Kwasiowusu? Wow, you are a true Microsoft c*cksucker indeed. Do me a favor and go back to sucking that c*ck. I'm sure Microsoft would appreciate their *** all over your face when it's all said in done.

[Kwasiowusu]

Hey juuken2, get ya ugly stinking mutt outta Sony's backside wil ya?
Being a Stooge for Japanse imperialism, never got anyone anywhere.
Too bad s yo momma keep letting spew out juvenille garbge from her computer.

[pabadamus]

Wow! I had to stop reading after the 2nd paragraph. These blogs continue to show your unfaltering bias. If you were a gamer you would see that consolidation destroys creativity and innovation. Why would you want to see less competition in an industry that is already languishing due to a refusal to explore the creative process? Yes, gaming is realizing record and ever increasing annual revenues, but at the cost of Madden # ?, FPS Next and TPS Me Too. We are mired in a cycle that favors iteration over innovation.

I love the current multi-hardware model the industry has adopted since the introduction of Sega Genesis. I love the fact that these companies are shoveling truckloads of their money into making more affordable and price competitive hardware. Would you like to pay $250 to $400 for your system of choice or $500 to $700 for a single option? Choice only benefits us. You work for CNET not Microsoft. Therefore you gain nothing from less competition (unless you are a major shareholder).

[ozps3]

Don Reisinger, you are not some immature little teenager or are you? Sony 1st party studios are a long term investment for sony, initially early on there will be a loss, but long term there will be profits, Sony is only just kicking into gear. It only got launched worldwide in March 2007, and with high prices of PS3 and very little software and PS3 functionality which was nothing what it is today, it still OUTSOLD XBox360.
Studios are only as good as the creative and technical talent in it. If NaziSoft oops Micro$oft buys out the studios, no gurantee the people working in those studios want to be under the rule of Nazi$soft.

This article so much seems like a sign of desperation from Microsoft loyalists and PS3 haters.

[lefil]

Wow, Kwasiowusu is a pathetic Xbox fan isn't he? If MS ever wanted to catch up with PS3 sales in Japan, they would need to sell a lot more than PS3 (not just 5,000 more) for a sustained amount of time. Even if 360 keeps this rate next 3 years, it would still struggle to reach 1.5 million. Also don't forget that FFXIII is the PS3 exclusive in Japan, so Sony will get plenty of sales there next year.

[ShatHappens]

This is a joke right? Is Don Reisinger being paid to write ignorant fiction?

I own all 3 consoles. I hold no preference to one. I just like to be able to play all the games out there. Currently the PS3 outsells the Xbox 360 in all territories month to month...that's right even in the US. If that changes and the 360 outsells the PS3 when the price drops who cares?

Just because Don Reisinger isn't the most published or read hack on the internet, does that mean that he should pack it in or join up with some other obscure writer? NO. So just because the Wii is outselling the 360 and the PS3 doesn't mean that they can't be profitable businesses on their own. Obviously Reisinger hasn't heard of the PS2 or PSP. If he had, he'd realize that the Sony games division sells 3 times the hardware compared to PS3 sales alone. In his own article he notes that the Sony games division posted a profit. Yeah get rid of a profitable business.

I mean come on CNET, I expect more from you. This crap is utter nonsense. The Wii is a cultural phenomenon and is selling like crazy. However that doesn't mean that its competitors have to merge to fight it. Besides if Reisinger knew a shred of anything about what he's opening his mouth about, he'd realize that the Wii primarily sells to a totally different group of gamers than does the 360 or PS3.

I can't believe I wasted time reading such a stupid article. I want my 5 minutes back.

[skitzinoc]

Remember, the author is a technology columnist not a business/economics columnist. Click on the authors name for backgroound info.

While a merger obviously makes no sense I don't want to comment on that. Rather I want to comment on journalists sticking to things they know about. Not picking on this article or author in particular but it did spur me to add a comment. Just tired of seeing poor uninformed journalism passed as news (news.cnet.com). When reading something being passed as news , even if it is an opinion piece, you expect the writer to be an expert in the field or at least well informed. With today?s "news" being written by people who have no idea on the subject we have endless articles like this, wastes of time.

[hazedg]

Amen.

[-Doubledex-]

Don Reisinger, you are an f u c k i n g I-D-I-O-T!

(you know nothing about the gaming-business)

[rog1835]

This is probably the dumbest article I've ever seen on a respected site. Really? Microsoft who has lost Billions in the gaming industry is going to buy Sony which has dominated the games industry for a decade just when the PS3 is out of the woods and making profit? You're much more likely to see Microsoft drop gaming after the 360. I'm surprised Cnet would even put this foolish garbage on it's site.

[Ugotownedo]

While your points are valid, I don't think Sony will give up their division because they too are in it for the long haul. Sure, they're losing money on every PS3 sold, but I'm sure they're aware of the fact that in a couple of years, they'll be making a huge profit on them. Losing billions now, so that they can make billions in the future. The cost of Blu-ray is going down fast; in 2 years, it'll be at least $100 cheaper to make a Blu-ray drive, and the cost of the CPU and GPU is shrinking fast as well, due to the die shrinks they are going through.

So it's not a matter of if Microsoft will buy Sony's gaming division or not, it's if Sony will let them.

[tkspyder]

To Kwasiowusu .
Nintendo is also a Japanese company. What is your point?

[Kwasiowusu]

@ tkspyder, my point is that Sony being a Japanese company, with the Japanese being notoriously nationalistic, Sony has no business selling less than 10,000 a week PS3, when the PS3 has been on the market for less than 2 years, especially when the 360 is now selling around 5,000 a week.
The PS2, used to outsell the original XBOX by a massive 40:1 per week. No one is even talking about that now.

[hazedg]

Wow, this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.

Hello? Red rings of death? Windows Vista?

Enough said.

[hazedg]

If you wasted your time reading this garbage, go redeem yourself by reading this:

http://gr8tfate.blogspot.com/2008/04/cnets-don-reisinger-water-cooler-babble.html

[cusman78]

After reading this I felt compelled to create account so that I can post comment

Don Reisinger sounds like a fanboy and his article reads just like the ridiculous idiotic rantings you find from fanboys on many a gaming forum

His purpose seems to be save gaming from Nintendo (assuming that it needs to be)... even though Nintendo and Sony/Microsoft are really competing in very different markets and the industry growth shows that both the Wii casual and the Sony/Microsoft core markets are prospering (even if the hardware vendors are taking losses... which isn't different from anything in the past for the hardware vendors for the first couple of years of each console cycle).

His wet dream to bring about this saving seems to be the non-sense idea that MS will buy Sony game division, Sony will sell it, and that it will overall be better for both of them. His arguments for all these cases are as infantile as the seemingly 13 year old fanboys that post in forums... only he is a well paid grown adult that is supposedly a professional.

When the only reason he wants Sony/MS to somehow merge and abandon one of their highly invested products is to somehow out-compete Nintendo in a completely different market focus that could care less about whether there is something called x360 or PS3 that cost > $300

In my view... a lot of the Wii support is from core gamers... and their support will be less due to less core gamer offerings in the revealed pipeline... although we know that now it wont just be Nintendo but also 3rd parties that will try to market new products for the core gamers on Wii

On other hand the Wii support for casual gamers and new gamers is just getting warmed up and its not just Nintendo anymore. Its all the big third party publishers. This is the majority of the Wii market share and will be completely unaffected by anything x360/PS3 do as long as they continue to mainly focus and compete for the core gamers only.

[Kwasiowusu]

@ lefil, today's media create hardware numbers already show that PS3 sales fell to under 10,000 units, just as I oredicted earlier in this thread. Meanwhile, the 360 leapt over the 5000 number. and that is even before tales of Vesperia, which came out this week.
Next week's figures will show the 360 easily beating the PS3 in Japan.
The trouble with the PS3 is, there really is no big game that is going to lieft the PS3 above the 10,000 number in jaoan for the whole of August and Sptember. Meanwhile, the 360 has at least another 2 Japanese RPGS's coming up in August and Septemebr, in addition to Tales. I expect the 360 to be quite competitive with the PS3 in Jaoan for the nxt few months, which is not good news for the PS3 in a market they are supposed to dominate.

[staticks]

@Kwasiowusu: They already ARE dominating, and will continue to dominate more in the future. Yes, the XB360 may get a slight boost here and there in Japan, but we all know that in the long haul, the substantial lead that the PS3 holds over the XB360 will only grow as time moves on. The Japanese people simply will not support the Microsoft-made system en masse, in spite of a few little bumps here and there that get biased fanboys' hopes up like yours. You and I both know that the PS3 will win by a huge margin in Japan, when all is said and done; again, the lead is already substantial at this point in time, and that's BEFORE the PS3 has really released any heavy hitting, system-selling titles for the Japanese public (a demographic category of games that we all know the PS3 will come out stronger and with more numbers in when given enough time).

Yes, Tales of Vesperia, or any other little JRPG release from time to time, will give the XB360 a nice little boost, but in the end, you and I both know that it won't matter one iotah. The PS3 will still dominate Japan in total hardware units sold at the end of this generation's life cycle. That's a projection that everyone knows and acknowledges, but you refuse to admit to yourself.