IS it that buggy, backward & flawed?. You sure do complain alot about MS's products and about MS in general maybe you should'nt be envolved with MS, save yourself some trouble and stop dealing with MS. Man if it wasn't for your avatar.

in no way shape or form can hurt MS! of course they don't want to have to pay that but!! right now there still in a better position to buy more developers than SONY!! if the money that MS has is in trouble then what kinda trouble you think Sony is in!!

an true gamer, everybody that's been on this site for a while knows you dont like the xbox or MS for that matter, so comments like that only reinforce what we already know about you!!

you say MS use to be innovative!! do you know how hard is is to improve something thats already great(WinXP) an make it better without someone coming up an trying to sue you an say we had that first!! come on. give MS a break!!

...everybody knows that you should wait for the first update for any new Microsoft operating system. And True Gamer, it does sound like you do complain alot about Microsoft in other threads. What saves your ass is that Halo 3 avatar!

BTW it is impossible to avoid using MS products if you work in corporate America you would know that.

No you would now that it's something you might wait on it's on big signs on the streets lol. You remind me of another poster that was crying about having to buy a HDD after buying a core 360. I'v seen interviews of MS employee's saying there needs to be things worked out.

(. BTW I'm typing this on a Windows Vista Home Windows Vista Home Premium OS / BTW it is impossible to avoid using MS products if you work in corporate America you would know that).

Anybody with any sense would know they're infact Beta testers for new software when you purchase launch sofware. It's almost like people want to be let down so they can get angry. Anybody can see how real you keep it by reading your past post.

Wow, how did this become about Vista ....

Anyway I just wanted to say that Vista and xbox 360, even if they are both made by Microsoft, are two completely different product. It is possible to like one and hate the other so don t expect every xbox owner to praise Vista.

I know the developers that Sony has picked up have worked out while and generally make excellent first-party titles. If it's EA vs. Microsoft, in gaming MS is the lesser of two evils by far. I'm not a fan of EA, they're IP's get so watered down.

whether you like Windows Vista or XP they are both owned by M$ and therefore the money goes in their pocket either way. The big difference between XP and Vista is that XP offered alot of neccessary improvements over its predecessor while Vista frankly just looks great "at the moment", which is why the sales were better for XP, in the future hopefully Vista will become more useful but as for now why would you buy Vista when it really isn't neccessary to upgrade yet?...and then complain about bugs when its common knowledge all M$'s OS have bugs when first released which are fixed over time....so I think some people are indeed looking for reasons to complain. -oh wait a minute....this news isn't even about "VISTA", wow and anyone can sue a company so that company and especially M$ still has an obligation to continue doing business and buying whatever they see fit....a lawsuit is no more than a company/person "believing" you owe them money....tommorrow I could sue M$, but most likely I would fail just like most "lawsuits" for every creditable one out there against any company there are 1,000 ones just trying to get money and even if they lost that money I think it would be foolish to say they are in know position to buy any of those dev's....oh wait a minute this isn't about a "LAWSUIT", sorry I went off topic, I don't know WHY, but anyway I agree with fjtorres which is the real value is in the companies employees and its a risk, so in some situations its better to just license exclusives.

Not for nothing. But at the rate EA is going, buying so many developers will not be long before they want to start making consoles. I tell you what. It would suck if one consider that pretty much every sport game belongs to EA. which would be exclusive to their console.

Forward this article to Sony ......QUICK ; )

If your gonna but Vista then wait at least a year for them to relase drive updates, more updates etc to fix many of the problems. Anyways, MS could buy alot of companies but theres no point at the moment, they need to keep third party companies happy and they need to pour money into the first party games to get people to buy their console.

...that Microsoft holds Realtime Worlds within Microsoft Game Studios, and so holds the rights to these franchises anyway? Correct and flame if I'm wrong but that's what I thought.

Hayabusa 117, is it the 3DO ? With movies on CD ?

Microsoft gaming division isn't in "the S)-(itter ". They are making money out every console they sell because the cost of making them went down.

And I do agree with you that Sony is not broke, they are loosing a ton of money with the ps3 right now, but they still make way more with the ps2, the bravia serie, the audio, ...

i think the 360 would easily win this war if two of the five developers listed were bought by microsoft

microsoft stated the had 2.62 billion in revinue from software and xbox 360 sales, and saying microsoft is out of money is the stupidest thing i ever heard if that were true how did bill gates have enough to donate 30 bil last year answer that