Chris Morris notes that "the embankment Microsoft faces is a lot smaller than it was a short time ago"
Gamasutra: If there's one news story that's on everyone's minds this week, it's Sony's imminent acquisition of "cloud" streaming company Gaikai, confirming pre-E3 rumors that, frankly, we were skeptical of.
There's been a lot of speculation on what the move could mean (including within Gamasutra's own community of bloggers), though Sony is understandably tight-lipped with its intentions.
However, one can't help but wonder when a major physical console manufacturer acquires a leader in cloud gaming what this means for retail games. So we've posed this simple, yet far-reaching question to our team of editorial experts at Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine:
Could Sony's purchase of Gaikai signal the beginning of the end of physical game media?
This will not happen until ISP grows some balls & get rid of caps. Or does Sony & Microsoft plan to next start their own ISPs without caps etc ?
Man, I really... I'm almost tempted to stop checking out this site; so much of this "news" is just crap, baseless speculation, and hit-grabbing nonsense.
It's a waste of time reading this crap.
No. They need something big to even be on the same level as Sony. Only at that point the console war even starting. Right now the clear winner is Sony for the most people obviously.
Of course they can, they pissed up e3 and they pist off gamers and they try and redo the policies, when if they cared about you(the gamer) they wouldnt of had them in the first place would they, ill get loads of disagrees but hay ifni loose a bubble or be it but ill have my ps4 amd sony can happly have my money.
Ofcourse they still can......none have even released yet.
Who cares about this imaginary war. Both systems will sell great. I have no doubt Sony will sell more systems due to the fact they have more following and a greater advantage in Japan and most of Europe but when it all comes down to it, we are literally talking about Apple vs Android here. There will only be one winner in terms of overall sales but both will have their fans and market share well established in the upcoming years and it will be great for gamers due to the competition.
For me, I am getting the XB1 first due to me liking the Live service and the games at launch. I will also get a PS4 late next year when Naughty Dog release their AAA game.
I can care less who sells more in 5 years as this is not a PS2 vs Dreamcast scenario here.