Microsoft Will Win the Console Wars!

Microsoft will dominate the next round of the console wars.  Why?

It has to do with overall strategy.  The XBox 360 is another piece of the digital home, with the media center PC at the heart. 

I have long been anti MS.  But the truth is that the strategy behind using the XBox 360 as the delivery mechnism and the media pc as the hub is a strong one.  MS products for better or worse have been easy to hookup and link together, and ease is what dominates at the end of the day.

MS will have you sitting in front of your TV, using your 360 to pull previously recorded shows or other entertainment from your media pc.  The media pc already allows for multiple tuners, hence the ability to record from multiple channels at one time.  You will be able to move from 360 to 360, and still be able to maintain one profile for Xbox live, or saved games.

MS realizes that the world still sits in front of the TV.  Sony may have better products at the end of the day, but the lack of a truly homewide strategy will be the real killer, not the games. 

One wild card in the bunch is Comcast, and Time Warner.  What will they do?  Will Sony try and partner with either one or both?  If so, what is the impact?

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