{"id":4113,"date":"2011-07-18T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2011-07-18T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T10:36:37","slug":"could-sony-build-the-console-while-microsoft-build-the-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/could-sony-build-the-console-while-microsoft-build-the-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Sony build the console while Microsoft build the software?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s all rumour, conjecture, and fanboy thinking, but there’s a certain logic to Sony and Microsoft pairing up for console gaming. Kotaku<\/a> brings together some ideas, links and speculates:<\/p>\n

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You could even look at that as another reason why Microsoft would be willing to cede the Xbox hardware business: Sony’s latest hardware experiments, like their tablets, run Google’s Android. It might be worth a few billion here and there to Microsoft to bring Sony more fully back into the fold. (See also: Nokia.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is likely to be #qtwtain ("questions to which the answer is no") but with rising development costs on console games, where the real money is, and the respective strengths of the two companies, there’s a certain logic to this. But then when has logic ever worked with Microsoft’s partners.<\/p>\n

(See also: Nokia?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s all rumour, conjecture, and fanboy thinking, but there’s a certain logic to Sony and Microsoft pairing up for console gaming. Kotaku brings together some ideas, links and speculates: You could even look at that as another reason why Microsoft would be willing to cede the Xbox hardware business: Sony’s latest hardware experiments, like their tablets, run Google’s Android. It might be worth a few billion here and there to Microsoft to bring Sony more fully back into the fold. (See also: Nokia.) This is likely to be #qtwtain ("questions to which the answer is no") but with rising development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[132,158,2692,416,2693,258],"class_list":["post-4113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-link-log","tag-microsoft","tag-nokia","tag-ps3","tag-sony","tag-vita","tag-xbox"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-14l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}