It's clear Microsoft aims to "win" the console battle. That would be a disaster. When Microsoft "wins", it completely gives up competing and development and r

It's clear Microsoft aims to "win" the console battle. That would be a disaster. When Microsoft "wins", it completely gives up competing and development and rests on it's "top of the market" position - best example of the is Internet Explorer. Once it had wiped out Mozilla, Microsoft stopped development of Internet Explorer entirely. I don't see why Microsoft has to destroy Playstation. If anything, the corporate part of Microsoft seems to be going for a strategy of going cross platform everywhere and winning hearts and minds and going where the developers are, opening up, embracing open source. At the same time, Xbox seems to be veering back into the Microsoft of the 1990's, who's goal was purely to destroy everything that competes with Microsoft. I hope Xbox fail in their acquisition and they have lost substantial goodwill with me - I'm sure that matters to them. And I hope Xbox lose in their battle to destroy Playstation.