Like you wrote, Microsoft has some hardware issues. That’s mainly because you can never have a software corporation venture into hardware unless you get some really good hardware engineers. They obviously got some very poorly trained ones since there were overheating issues right at the beginning. My corporation is the exactly opposite (although totally different market). Great hardware, terrible software. We’re working on it, but it’s always slow going when you have a bunch of management types talking about short-term goals (easier bonus money) instead of long-term strategies.

Sony would do well to exploit this issue by coming out strong in sales right at the beginning. Microsoft is here to stay in consoles unless they lose their biggest ticket item (sports and Live). So Sony has to come strong in the online realm.

I’m rooting for my Jap team. But I hope they actually look farther than the carrot dangling in front of their noses.

I think it’ll take 6 months. I probably won’t get the system until about a year or whenever the price comes down. Can’t justify that sort of cost, even for my fav. gaming company.

But just you watch. If Square ever drops Sony for Nintendo, you know bad times are coming. There’s no way Square would move to Microsoft exclusively.