Microsoft’s Entertainment Domination Plan posted at IndianPad.com…

You forgot to mention the completion of Vista aswell

Stuart
http://www.earnersblog.com

In the future there will be no Apple in the game. There will be Sony and there will be Microsoft.

In terms of the next generation I expect Microsoft to take it out unless Sony develop some sort of synergy between their hardware (which I believe they will).

Sony has the advantage in all of this – they are actually the ones that manufacture. Microsoft and Apple don’t.

if you have a came coming out why charge a 150 points for a gamer picture when you could give it away and be more likely to get a sale on the actual game. if they actually used the themes as marketing tools instead of trying to make a quick buck they would increase sales I suspect.

The arcade games are over priced too, the pool game on there is a good example. it costs 1200 points, which seems expensive to me. Now if they priced it at 600 I think they would sell 3 times the current amount.

The zune looks good but they are using points again and I can’t help feeling that the uk users will end up paying more for thier points than the US users.

I think 20 gig is ok if you have a pc to move files between.

Read more at http://www.numenorean.net/blog

Pc-To-X360 synch with Vista

and Mobile-To-X360 with WM6.

That really starts out with playanywhere and Ms using their own money ecosystem along with a unifed idtag system (zunetag-gamertag-Mobcard=the same id)

1) When will Microsoft start making money off of the “Entertainment Domination Plan” ?

Last time I checked they are losing a significant amount of money on the Xbox and they already said they will be losing money on the Zune. Do you think they can recoop this loss through music and movie sales? iPod is already in full control of music, there’s already some players in the movie market but its still up for grabs. Even so, I’m not quite sure Microsoft can pull this off.

I wouldn’t call it domination until I see some profit.

2) I’m sure Apple has been well aware of what Microsoft is doing long before everybody else. I would not be surprised if Apple already has a plan set in motion that is comparable or even better than what Microsoft is doing. Apple is very good at keeping things under wraps.

You obviously haven’t looked too hard at the third party offerings currently available — Oblivion, Burnout Revenge, Call of Duty 2 & 3, Dead Rising, F.E.A.R., Just Cause, Prey, GRAW, Test Drive Unlimited, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas & Splinter Cell Double agent all come readily to mind. There are others that I’m forgetting, but it’s already a pretty decent list & growing every week (especially this time of year…)

I highly doubt we’ll see a $100 price drop *this* holiday. Maybe next year.

In the meantime, go pick up a 360 Premium at Wally*World and get a free copy of Burnout Revenge with it. Or wait a couple of weeks and get a Wii. I’d wait a few months for the inevitable first-run defects to be worked out of the PS3 before even considering one (go ahead, name a Sony console in the last 6-7 years that didn’t have major issues at launch…)