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Not one to mix his words, Reggie waded into Sony and Microsoft, having a cheeky little pop at the ‘exclusionary’ nature of Nintendo’s competitor’s overall marketing strategies. Reggie claims that both Sony and Microsoft are making content development problematically expensive for developers, whilst at the same time providing “...a level of horsepower technology that not many consumers want.”

Pfft. Game development gets more expensive EVERY generation. This is nothing new.

To be perfectly clear, the Microsoft and Sony strategies are based on overall corporate objectives versus what’s right for the consumer. That’s a reality. Microsoft is essentially trying to get you to put a PC in your living room because they are fundamentally a PC software company. Sony is trying to get you to put an entertainment hub that has Blu-ray technology because that’s important to their movie business and the rest of their entire electronics business.

The thing about the 360 is you can get as much out of it as you want. At its most basic it can only play games. If you choose to go all out (paying for it all along the way) then it does turn into a media center hub. Microsoft's practice of consumer customization was with the consumer in the mind.

I don't have an excuse for Sony. Blu-Ray is unnecessary at this point, and cell is better suited for general computing than gaming. Billions of dollars are invested in both, and it's likely that the consumer will end up paying extra for it as they are both going to be built into the console.

In any case, who gives a fuck when you get great gaming on either one of those consoles?