Sony boasts strong hardware sales for Vita and PS3

I saw those XBOX numbers too, and was impressed. Honestly I don’t quite know what they are doing right. There are some kids in my extended family who got the Kinect last year but who are no longer using it. They said that is mostly unplugged since when left running it does random things when the parents are watching Netflix – it gets confused by the audio of the movie.

Clearly MS is doing something right though, I just don’t totally understand what it is. I am not that familiar with it now – I returned my three 360′s after they failed, and bought a PS3. I did ask another nephew in his late teens what he liked, and he said integration with online, and the fact that all his friends have it (network effect / first mover advantage).

In my recollection, it was much easier to invite friends to games – standardized, not done on a per game basis, it was easier to chat with people – the audio-out on the controller and cheap headphones is simpler than charging a bluetooth device, and that cheap boom mic was less likely to pick the background noise of the game than most phone centric blue tooth devices. I also find the X360 controller to be more comfortable for my larger hands.