Microsoft registers Microsoft-Sony.com

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 15 July, 2011

UPDATE: Microsoft explains itself.

UPDATE: Move along, nothing to see here. According to a Tweet from Microsoft corporate communications VP Frank Shaw the listing is just an innocuous "defensive domain name hold".

ORIGINAL STORY: Microsoft has registered the domains Microsoft-Sony.com and Sony-Microsoft.com.

Both domains were registered this month. But why?

Perhaps a one console future is about to become a reality? Would you buy a XboxStation or a PlayBox?

Or maybe Microsoft has bought Sony, or Sony has bought Microsoft.

Or Nintendo has bought them both, and decided to merge them into one gargantuan company. One can only hope.

Some have speculated that Microsoft may be readying some kind of comparison marketing campaign along the lines of Apple's Mitchell and Webb-fuelled "Get a Mac" campaign from a few years ago.

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Comments (138) Latest comment 10 months ago

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  • TruSmiles #1 10 months ago

    I'll take a PlayBox, please.

  • TechnicPuppet #2 10 months ago

    Fanboy fuel whatever it is

  • Kano-11 #3 10 months ago

    I don't want any of them. I'm still waiting on a Dreamcast 2...

  • Psiloc #4 10 months ago

    If Tim Langdell has taught me anything, Microsoft are about to claim they own the word 'Sony'.

  • Alex_976 #5 10 months ago

    Sega's brought the lot! Can't wait for the new Mega Drive.

  • TechnicPuppet #6 10 months ago

    MS could buy Sony, Sony couldn't buy MS. Much more likely to be an advertising campaign though i'd guess.

  • benfresh76 #7 10 months ago

    "A one console future"...if only that were true!

  • TheEarlOfZinger #8 10 months ago

    My dad can beat your dad up.

  • neilka #9 10 months ago

    Must be the site where Microsoft are going to post the usernames, passwords, address and credit card details of all their customers.

  • EugenesLair #10 10 months ago

    O_O

  • JoeGBallad #11 10 months ago

    They might as well have registered abitofamouthful.com

  • TheEarlOfZinger #12 10 months ago

    This thread will quickly go downhill.

  • Goodfella #13 10 months ago

    "A one console future"...if only that were true!

    I'll pray that it doesn't come true, competition keeps the big three on their toes and prices down.

  • nasanu #14 10 months ago

    Whatever this is I can not see it ending well for MS.

    And for all the hopes of a one console future... How boring do you want the future to be?

  • vtl #15 10 months ago

    "Sony leaked your credit card details, please wait while Microsoft looks for a solution to this issue."

  • WinterSnowblind #16 10 months ago

    Microsoft and Sony are both far bigger companies than just the Xbox and Playstation divisions. If this is any kind of partnership between the two, it almost certainly isn't game related.

  • Goffee #17 10 months ago

    Probably A Windows/Tablet thing but I'd like to think its Forza for Vita just to stuff up (and give us something to play while we wait for) Gran Turismo Vita when it appears in 2013... http://t.co/MGBjfYK
    Edited by Goffee at 15/07/11 @ 10:10

  • thesombrerokid #18 10 months ago

    Neither company could buy the other out, they could merge but they wont, this is about a sony windows phone 7.

  • Eraser #19 10 months ago

    Or someone at MS thought it would be hilariously funny to throw a few dollars at a domain name registration and have all the journalists and gamers speculate and guess at what it could be.

    Someone in Redmond is having a good time right now...

  • ThaneKrios #20 10 months ago

    Sony computers already run Windows. 360 2 scheduled to run Windows 9.

    Everyone using an AMD processor.

    MS using Cell.

    Sony calls PSN hack "a learning experience."

    Sony to offer "Kinect-like" experience with PS4.

    IT ALL MAKES SENSE.

  • X201 #21 10 months ago

    My money is on it being some kind of tie-up to kill off Apple TV before it gets going.


    edit: just went to VG247 and this was the top story
    [link url=http://www.vg247.com/2011/07/15/microsoft-to-create-new-partnerships-not-compete-with-tv-partners-for-livetv/
    ]http://www.vg247.com/2011/07/15/microsof...[/link]

    "Microsoft IEB CFO Dennis Durkin has said that the company isn’t looking to compete with TV providers over the upcoming launch of the LiveTV service that was debuted at E3."


    Edited by X201 at 15/07/11 @ 10:17

  • Doctor_What #22 10 months ago

    Isn't Sony a trademark?

  • ThaneKrios #23 10 months ago

    Looks like SEGA is coming back into the hardware scene and everyone is scared.

  • sonicyoda #24 10 months ago

    They should have registered MicrosoftxSony.com and announced a new fighter in the Capcom 'vs' series where you take control of key figures from each company and fight to the death! Kazuo Hirai vs Bill Gates; FIGHT.

  • TechnicPuppet #25 10 months ago

    MS could easily buy out Sony. They are sitting on $50b and Sony's market cap is half that.

  • anthonypappa #26 10 months ago

    it won't be anything to do with consoles, sony and microsoft... they do other things.

  • mcreddie #27 10 months ago

    "Or Nintendo has bought them both, and decided to merge them into one gargantuan company. One can only hope."

    Well I hope not for one, otherwise we'll constantly be stuck one generation behind!

  • HL706 #28 10 months ago

    I can see Sony ditching their console OS for PS4 and utilising a customised version of Windows - paying MS a small fee per unit. Either that or a Sony Windows Phone (most likely)

  • PearOfAnguish #29 10 months ago

    They're going to raise themselves on legs, combine into MicroSonyMegarobo and battle with UltraNintendZorg to claim dominion over the gaming industry. Millions will die.

  • mrblonde #30 10 months ago

    After the abject failure of the playstation 3 and with it the absolute tarnishing of the PS brand beyond repair, maybe Sony will sell off their home console devision who knows?
    Doubtful probably advertising campaign showing how the 360 can still surpass ps3 in almost every department with the outlandish claims made by Sony about ps3 power , running in the background
    Edited by mrblonde at 15/07/11 @ 10:31

  • Inmediasress #31 10 months ago

    Why do I have the feeling that it will be a PayBox.
    Well there is some crazy talk going on like how win8 will support xbox360 games and now this.
    Maybe M$ tries to be the sole ruler of the gaming industry by combining the two big consoles and maybe even pc somehow.(don't ask me how)
    Anyway it's just idiotic speculation.

  • EugenesLair #32 10 months ago

    Could it be something as simple as MS trying to avoid anyone using that domain? (for any dodgy marketing tactics).

  • Vistrix #33 10 months ago

    Its most likely something to do with PCs and nothing to do with consoles.

    Microsoft uses Sony laptops in their commercials etc.

  • arcam #34 10 months ago

    Somehow I suspect if MS and Sony were merging, registering this crappy domain name would not be the way they reveal it to the world :/

    Much more likely is they've just bought up a ton of MS related domain names to stop spammers/phishers sending email from them. Not very exciting, sorry.

  • flaming.carrot #35 10 months ago

    Microsoft won't ever buy Sony - but Apple might try at some point. Steve Jobs has long been a fan and based Apple on Sony's business model in the early years.

  • iCubPro #36 10 months ago

    Microsoft and Sony merged into one... That would equal "Mony" then? :)

  • Porcupine_I #37 10 months ago

    i actually think a Sony console with a Microsoft network Service would be a good thing.

    Kimove not so much

  • jonfon #38 10 months ago

    @EugenesLair "Could it be something as simple as MS trying to avoid anyone using that domain? (for any dodgy marketing tactics)."

    Stop that! Logic has no place in this thread. Either start making up proper looney reasons for this or leave the thread!! :)

    Obviously Microsoft have been inspired by recent horror films and are lining up their offering : Console Centipede (The Wii is the one in the middle).

  • EugenesLair #39 10 months ago

    @jonfon lol! ... ok, I'll give it a shot.

    If there's any kind of partnership between them two, it'll probably be to face competition from Apple.

    Although if I were Nintendo, I would start to worry about now. Also I would feel a little lonely they left me out of the domain's name ;)

  • Desheep #40 10 months ago

    COD on XboxStation is better than the PlayBox version.

  • Zomeguy #41 10 months ago

    MS could easily buy out Sony. They are sitting on $50b and Sony's market cap is half that.
    Yes, but the shares are not all up for sale though...

  • GamesConnoisseur #42 10 months ago

    This thread gone totally insane!

  • nuanimal #43 10 months ago

    Or a comparison site?

  • ThaneKrios #44 10 months ago

    [link url=http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llkx3wTFjQ1qdnkzoo1_500.jpg
    ]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llkx3w...[/link]
    Gonna need the whole bag for this one.

  • FireMonkey #45 10 months ago

    @General_Ironfist - "They don't have that powerful dedicated drive to pioneer the future... To push humanity technologically foward as Sony do. And their copycats nothing they have ever done has been their own ideas or inventions"

    Umm... BULLSHIT!

    [link url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/research/default.aspx
    ]http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/rese...[/link]

    MS has one of the largest research departments in the US

  • mumblyjoe #46 10 months ago

    they also registered thewillpower.org

  • ThaneKrios #47 10 months ago

    http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x430...

  • Tryhard #48 10 months ago

    Amiga 5000 please.

  • weebl #49 10 months ago

    What are people on here smoking? Just because Microsoft registers two domains it means they are going into a merger?

    It is likely that they won't be using the domains for anything and it is a speculative purchase so they weren't taken by a 14 year old and redirected to Nintendo's website. Or something.

  • TechnicPuppet #50 10 months ago

    No way its that it costs £7.99 or something to register a domain name. You trying to tell me they would waste £16?

  • TechnicPuppet #51 10 months ago

    Hmm Sony-Ericsson struggling, could they be buying out Ericsson?

    http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/sony-...

  • vizzini #52 10 months ago

    Microsoft have no doubt just bought out the Ericsson side of the Sony-Ericsson.com business or planning to.
    Especially if Nokia's board went through with ousting their head guy (an ex-microsoft man) who announced migrating all future Nokia phones to Windows Mobile, which much of the board didn't support.

    Or possibly a second opportunity to buy a larger slice of mobile market; if all Nokia and SE phones then became Windows only giving them a bigger launch platform for Window 8 Mobile which sounds more plausible imo.

    Interestingly would it then mean that Windows OS phones would be getting Playstation Suite certified.

  • dr_zoidthrob #53 10 months ago

    Maybe someone wants to do a modern Tommy Cooper impression

  • geeza2020 #54 10 months ago

    GeneralIronfist - "Also M$ are very greedy (i know all corporations are) BUT M$ are one of the greedyiest around, thats a fact."

    I'd be interested to know how you quantify greed, (as I believe its impossible) and therefore come to the conclusion (or fact as you put it) as to which is the most greedy corporation around.....

  • TechnicPuppet #55 10 months ago

    @spacedelete

    Sony's total shares are worth around $26b and MS has $50b in cash. So if they could get their hands on the shares then they could buy them. Highly unlikely though as I have said.

  • stegabba #56 10 months ago

    gaming wise sony and microsoft dont have to team up because the next gen they are both kick wii u's ass

  • IneptPercy #57 10 months ago

    Interesting, I joint venture on a console would be truly excellent, sonys ambition mixed with microsofts common sense!

    But I like the idea of them joining due to sega comng back! return of the king, la resistance lives on!

  • benfresh76 #58 10 months ago

    ""A one console future"...if only that were true!

    I'll pray that it doesn't come true, competition keeps the big three on their toes and prices down."

    Yes, because having multiple hardware formats is really great for consumers, developers and publishers...It's retail competition and market saturation that keep prices down for consumers, that's why DVD's (that I can play on any DVD player) are so cheap these days.

    I could understand if having different hardware formats lead to wildly varying innovation, but that simply isn't the case any more (was it ever?)
    Edited by benfresh76 at 15/07/11 @ 11:50

  • Subdominator #59 10 months ago

    If every domain the own would have a meaning we would have 25.000 new products. It's probably just domain grabbing so noone can mess around with things.

  • TheEarlOfZinger #60 10 months ago

    @geeza2020

    Rick Stein was being greedy in Spain last night on BBC2, I can tell you that.

  • Atropos #61 10 months ago

    That would dovetail nicely with the new XBox being announced soon, at the same time that there are rumours that Sony are releasing their next console in 2013, even though their denying a new Playstation...

  • coolbritannia #62 10 months ago

    "competition keeps the big three on their toes and prices down" $599, $599, $599, $599, $599....

    probably an advertising campaign highlighting how gash Sony are compared to Microsoft.

  • Bigglesworth #63 10 months ago

    I imagine that when the PlayBox and XboxStation both emerge (both being exactly the same machine), Digital Foundry will still attempt to find graphical differences between the two.
    Edited by Bigglesworth at 15/07/11 @ 12:25

  • PearOfAnguish #64 10 months ago

    Anyone who says 'M$' is a certified Cool Dude©. Seriously it never stops being both funny and clever.

  • Ali360 #65 10 months ago

    i think both companies were high while making the website.

    or maybe youd walk in an xboxstation and 'playbox'.....
    Edited by Ali360 at 15/07/11 @ 12:22

  • MARKIV #66 10 months ago

    PS360 to be announced at next years e3...?
    Edited by MARKIV at 15/07/11 @ 12:23

  • Rev.StuartCampbell #67 10 months ago

    "Or Nintendo has bought them both, and decided to merge them into one gargantuan company. One can only hope."

    One can only hope NOT, or the next generation of boxed games will cost 95 quid a fucking throw.

  • Ror1984 #68 10 months ago

    It's far more likely that Sony are going to be making some nice Win 8 tablets.

  • RexRunti #69 10 months ago

    To be honest I thought MSs long term goal was to get DirectX into other manufacturers machines (DirectX is why the X in X-box comes from). MS software on Sony hardware sounds pretty cool to me.

    In all seriousness this is probably a phone tie up though (the Nokia thing doesn't stop there HTC relations). (Though this would also be quite big news, just not in the gaming space.)

    PS @General_Ironfist i'm not sure this will get through the tin-foil hat your wearing but MS spends more on R&D than Sony, both as a percentage of revenue and in raw numbers http://gizmodo.com/5486798/research-and-...

  • geeza2020 #70 10 months ago

    I like the idea that General Ironfist thinks that Sony are doing all their technological research in order to benefit mankind. Its truly, one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read. They are a corporation who are interested in making $$$$ they couldnt give a shit if it benefits "mankind" or not.

  • SHPanda #71 10 months ago

    Probably Windows/PC related...

  • RumpyStumpy #72 10 months ago

    @generalironfist

    If Sony were so good at RandD why hasn't the dualshock improved on the last decade?

    And don't say because it doesn't need to as I know many people who develop the claw because of it!

  • Gurgeh #73 10 months ago

    I can see MS linking with Sony for mobile phones; Sony could use the cash injection and MS are struggling to grow in the mobiles area. It could be another Nokia-like deal that's in the works.

  • DarkMoon #74 10 months ago

    one domain to rule them all! ahahahahahahahahahahahaha

  • Widge #75 10 months ago

    This comment thread is now 80 comments long.

    *sigh*

  • FireMonkey #76 10 months ago

    @General_SonyFist - Wow! You love yourself a bit of Sony don't you.

    I'm British by the way and fully understand America isn't the world. I also understand facts and figures and prefer to use those rather than just making things up.

    Also, what exactly do you mean by "Sony do R&D to push humanity technologically forward"?
    What R&D do you know of that Sony is doing / has done that 'pushes humanity technologically forward'?

    Check out the link I posted before showing the wide range of research MS is doing.
    Edited by FireMonkey at 15/07/11 @ 13:09

  • Moribundman #77 10 months ago

    BUT WHAT WILL WE TALK ABOUT IF THIS IS TRUE?!?!

  • Moribundman #78 10 months ago

    Haha thank God for the Internet. General_Ironfist has managed to fashion a crudely carved fanboy argument out of news that everyone wants to kiss and make up and cats and dogs will live together.

    Mark my words as soon as they call armistice, guerilla forums will spring up with "The Continuity XBLA" and "The Red Ring Order" marching provocotively across teh internets... ;-)

  • telboy007 #79 10 months ago

    MrBlonde and General_Ironfist should make babies, the resulting children from fanboys from opposite sides of the specturm would have no allegiance and therefore be able to make logical and non-flaming comments. Thus eradicating fanboism.

    The world rejoices.

    We all go home happy.

    The End

  • SomaticSense #80 10 months ago

    From the article: Or Nintendo has bought them both, and decided to merge them into one gargantuan company. One can only hope.

    One can certainly not hope.

    As romantic a notion as it would undeniably be, it would be absolutely terrible for both the industry for us gamers.

  • TechnicPuppet #81 10 months ago

    So that's why your called Ironfist, to much dual shock action.

  • TheEarlOfZinger #82 10 months ago

    "(DirectX is why the X in X-box comes from). "

    Never knew that, you learn something every day.

  • CallousB #83 10 months ago

    @Moribundman

    Apple are obviously going to enter the market fairly soon..and the fact is PS/Xbox fanboys spend for more time ripping into Nintendo that each other. So still plenty of room for system wars.

  • Madder-Max #84 10 months ago

    I reckon part of its to do with the EVE tie in gravy train/cash cow/fleecing machine.......I mean game

  • jonfon #85 10 months ago

    I'm glad I don't have a superior intellect if this thread is an example of one in action.

  • Tiberius_Gracchus #86 10 months ago

    Do you think it's going to rain later? Might go out for a walk...

  • braydee89 #87 10 months ago

    It's probably for laptops, but I hope it's for either cross- platform online or playstation suite on wp7.

  • VTurk #88 10 months ago

    playstation has some good game but the console is rubbish i think ms would be taking a dive to buy sony. but i welcome it. as they do have some good first party titles, and blu ray.
    but i bet its nothing to do with consoles more to do with pcs.

  • geeza2020 #89 10 months ago

    "PS. geeza2020 Don't ever put words into my mouth again & tell me what I think. You understand that you cunt whore. Im my own person and I will not EVER be told, by the likes of you. You fucking piece of downright scum."

    Thanks general ironfist, you've made my weekend, ROFL! What a spaz.

  • Reedo #90 10 months ago

    Oh ironfist. You're starting to sound like a Christian.....

  • DoctorFraud #91 10 months ago

    Ironfist: Crazy like the wolf, hungry as a fox, and putting all his cheese in one basket.

    Funny as fuck though, in a 'dont look the fucker in the eyes' kinda way.

  • DrStrangelove #92 10 months ago

    @spacedelete

    "it would be like a huge country buying out another huge country. what would be the point of it?"

    Not sure, but you might ask that the Chinese, who own another huge country now (albeit a bankrupt one).

  • mrblonde #93 10 months ago

    @geeza2020 no need for personal comments like yours


    @Iron (Sony)fisting

    Microsoft have took this generation forward in tech terms on line, achievements, cross game chat,KINECT, xbla , with the first xbx they saw the web revolution coming to consoles and how important it would be this generation.
    With Sony it seems online was an after thought and id hardly call the ps3 "s piss- poor architecture a step forward, BR also seems like it was a big mistake and poor foresight by Sony"s "amazing" r+d department, , this dept has ruined the playstation brand in less than 5 years, amamzing.....
    Edited by mrblonde at 15/07/11 @ 16:17

  • RawNinjaKid #94 10 months ago

    Hopefully, it's not a shameless campaign on MSFT's part.

  • Machiavellian #95 10 months ago

    And for all the hopes of a one console future... How boring do you want the future to be?

    I want it so boring where I only have to purchase one console and get all the games I care about. I would like it so boring that with both MS and Sony pockets we see a true next gen console where both companies can split the cost thus the impact will be less and we get more console per money spent. I also would like it so that both companies join in on spending more money on those indie projects and continue to give us great games at a decent price.

    Oh well, I am sure like will not get that boring anytime soon but a man can wish.

  • TechnicPuppet #96 10 months ago

    @Ironfist

    You forgot about UMD, the Betamax, the Minidisc and the Move.

  • Machiavellian #97 10 months ago

    Apple are obviously going to enter the market fairly soon..and the fact is PS/Xbox fanboys spend for more time ripping into Nintendo that each other. So still plenty of room for system wars.

    Interesting that people believe that Apple will enter the gaming market. I do not believe they will. Yes, Apple TV will be able to do games just like the Iphone and Pad but thats only because they have an OS where you can create apps. Games has never interested Apple. Even today developers that program for the Macs complain about how Apple just do not care.

    So gaming from Apple will be the same as it is on the Iphone, Pad ect. The only difference is that Apple will be playing with the big boys thinking the same disinterested strategy will work on the HD sets.

  • Machiavellian #98 10 months ago

    At sometime or point, you guys will figure out that Iron fist is pulling your chain, don't feed the trolls.

  • Kaminari #99 10 months ago

    Using a competitor's brand in a corporate domain name is not a comparison marketing campaign, it is copyright infringement.

    Unless of course it is a joint venture between Microsoft and Sony. In which case all Hell would break loose.

  • geeza2020 #100 10 months ago

    But he's hilarious

  • riseer #101 10 months ago

    Mrblonde,Ps3 is 3 million units behind the 360 which had a year headstart i guess you forgot about that.

  • RexRunti #102 10 months ago

    If it's not phone related it could be IPTV related. MS have been in this area for yonks but have never been able to grab the consumer with it (a bit like tablet PCs) so a new push with Sony might make all the difference before Apple "invent" it.

  • TechnicPuppet #103 10 months ago

    @General_Ironfist

    Not agreeing with the majority doesn't make you a troll, it's not agreeing with facts that does that.

  • Zaiz #104 10 months ago

    o_o Ironfist isn't a troll? What?! And he makes such a good troll too. I don't believe it.

  • jefranklin18 #105 10 months ago

    Before I read all the comments, I should point out that monopoly positions are good for nobody - the consumer suffers, the monopolistic company's position is eroded as the consumers move on to alternative forms of entertainment or whatever industry the monopoly occurs in.

    Of course this economic theory has sod all basis when you're talking about staples that consumers need, whether it is food, fuel or bloody useless rail companies that run a 4 car train in to London Bridge at peak time. (A bit of a vent there :)

  • RedSparrows #106 10 months ago

    Ironfist, you are a fool. Go away.

  • Smoped #107 10 months ago

    Sony sends out nanomachines that look like Sackboy to steal our precious bodily fluids while we sleep and that's a FACT.

  • FireMonkey #108 10 months ago

    @General_SonyFist - So you can name 4 or 5 things big that Sony have done in 40 years!

    Did you bother to look at the research MS have done / are doing before you say "if you knew anything about technology/innovation and had the ability to look beyond the short-term (like I can and do). You'd see that Sony are the superior company."

    Here are a couple of things that may not mean anything to you directly, but I think are more important to humanity than anything Sony have done:

    Microsoft Collaborates With Leading Doctors and Scientists, Using Advanced Machine-Learning Techniques to Optimize HIV Vaccines
    [link url=http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-23hivvaccinepr.mspx
    ]http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press...[/link]

    Automatic Analysis of Medical Images from Microsoft Research
    [link url=http://digital-medicine.blogspot.com/2011/03/automatic-analysis-of-medical-images.html
    ]http://digital-medicine.blogspot.com/201...[/link]

    Part of the reason you may have seen more things from Sony is that Sony's research is purely to develop new products, whereas a lot of MS's research is there for.... research. Even if they do not come up with a product, they come up with a hell of a lot of theories and algorithms as well as supporting the research of universities, institutes and other companies.
    Edited by FireMonkey at 15/07/11 @ 17:12

  • telboy007 #109 10 months ago

    Hmm... don't go to microsoftsony.com - so they registered due to that, or someone's been quick in snapping up other combinations.

  • FireMonkey #110 10 months ago

    @telboy007

    From WhoIs:

    Registrar: DOTNAME KOREA CORP
    Whois Server: whois.dotname.co.kr
    Referral URL: [link url=http://www.dotname.co.kr
    ]http://www.dotname.co.kr
    [/link]
    Status: OK

    Expiration Date: 2012-03-29
    Creation Date: 2009-03-29
    Last Update Date: 2011-03-15

    Looks like they have had it for a while, but changed it today (don't blame them really as they are probably getting lots of traffic now)

  • Lucodeath #111 10 months ago

    Its not April or the 1st so is there a new date for April the 1st?

  • Machetazo #112 10 months ago

    Does it have any inspiration from the modernwarfare3.com site redirection to battlefield 3's official page? This sounds too obvious/straightforward for MS to kick off that kind of viral thing, though. really should be "SonyxMicrosoft.com", and vice versa, if it was a video game related shift. :p

  • albinac #113 10 months ago

    of them were bought by a multi-national news consortium and they are going to waist billions trying to snuff out nintendo because the little n won't sell out.

  • Trigg3rHippie #114 10 months ago

    To fuck with our heads, that's why...

  • AnotherIdiot #115 10 months ago

    Hopefully this means what we all hope it means. Please God.

  • matpsp #116 10 months ago

    This is just a bullshit story, and the comments are all based on conjecture. Ridiculous.

  • Corinthian7 #117 10 months ago

    Why does this have to be console related? Maybe Microsoft have tied up a deal with Sony to recommend Vaio as there prefered choice to run Windows 8 or Sony Ericsson might be about to support Windows Mobile 7. A Sony- Microsoft console collaboration in intriguing but I don't know, I kind of like owning both consoles and I think the competition is healthier. I wouldn't mind seeing cross platform online gaming though,

  • mumblyjoe #118 10 months ago

    Can't see Sony being OK with this....

  • Tiberius_Gracchus #119 10 months ago

    After all that...

  • kinth #120 10 months ago

    i dont get how its a defensive somain name hold :S why would either sony or microsoft try to register those domains?
    the only person they would be defending from is sony but why would sony want to register that name either.

    i think its a bullshit cover up and im going to go put my tin foil hat on! :)

  • Neil__ #121 10 months ago

    @General_Ironfist

    You really are an asshole.

    PS This fucktard sent me 7 yes 7 PM's banging on about how gay he was because I posted a sarcastic comment asking some fool if he thought about dick.
    So, not only is he an asshole but he's remarkably unhinged as well.
    Edited by Neil__ at 16/07/11 @ 00:02

  • radioactive_bumfluff #122 10 months ago

    It would be a sweet idea, but can't see this happening too many problems would occur, which controller style would the Playbox go for? Would you earn Achievements or Trophies? Game pricing etc etc...

    We can always dream though...

  • KayJay #123 10 months ago

    Hold on.
    How come this has been pumped to the top of the news section after an update and the tripe that was purchase yesterday stayed where it was.

    Wtf.

  • Harmonica #124 10 months ago

    Fun fact: if any of us little-people tried the same move we'd get done for domain squatting. Does not apply if you're one of the biggest companies in the world (cf. Apple and the itunes.co.uk fiasco).

  • DrStrangelove #125 10 months ago

    I hope some Sony official won't miss this excellent opportunity for making a nice sarcastic comment.

  • TheRealBadabing #126 10 months ago

    The Playbox is obviously inferior to the XboxStation in every way. It's about time you playbots stopped trolling.

    Also, EG bias.

  • anomagnus #127 10 months ago

    I don't think it simpossible. A sony/MS console makes sense. Developers will love it, we'll not have to spread our cash, development times should be smaller because theres only one platform, and they could drive stake through nintendo. Everyone is a winner.

  • actionfitz #128 10 months ago

    "Perhaps a one console future is about to become a reality?"

    i's settle for a 'single standard' like dvd players or PCs: lots of different makers with slightly different features, but they all play the same media...
    that would be awesome. could still buy a MS or Sony machine - based on aesthetics, but my games could play in either one... oh and they'd allow us to upgrade hard drives etc with cheap standard pc components...

    ...and monkeys might fly out of my arse.

  • mousearmyone #129 10 months ago

    "Defensive domain name hold"? I thought when other people did it, it was called cybersquatting.

  • ToAks #130 10 months ago

    @firemonkey

    are you serious?

    do you belive that sony's huge r&D division has only done thoose 4 -5 things in 40 years?

    Ever heard of LED,OLED,CMOS,3D Projectory,Lossless,3D Scanners,3DMedical monitors,3D medical cameras oh and yes...theyre all massively used in the medical sector and save people every day :)
    also you can look up what STC is aswell as have a look at their website about r&d achivements.
    without Siemens or SONY we can't be ,thoose are the biggest guys in the medical sectors, software side is diffrent as there is more companies with epertise although they develop for siemens and sony etc.

  • weebl #131 10 months ago

    @TechnicPuppet

    Without wishing to jump to the aid of a complete moron, I felt I had to set you straight on some things:

    UMD: was a cheaper data media than flash memory when it was designed. What's the problem with that?
    Betamax: was technically far superior to VHS, but admittedly Sony didn't licence it in the right way and that lead to its downfall.
    Minidisc: aside from DAT, was the first data storage format for music that could be rewritten thousands of times. It was popular in Japan for ages, but we saw it just a few years before the iPod came out and cleaned up.
    Move: this is a more precise controller for determining its position in 3D space than the Kinect is, but people tend to think that it is exactly the same sort of controller. Playing Tumble with Kinect would be impossible.

    To be honest if I was to pick holes with everything that Microsoft has done over its lifespan I'd be here forever. What it doesn't write that isn't bloated or broken it buys / steals from other companies, most notably Java from Sun Microsystems.

  • MrVengeance #132 10 months ago

    Would make good business sense to share R&D, manufacturing and design costs. Both the 360 and PS3 are so similar it wouldn't make that much difference to gamers - would mean they wouldn't have to shell out for two similar systems....

  • Number1Laing #133 10 months ago

    Would make good business sense to share R&D, manufacturing and design costs.

    And it's something they have to be very careful about, as there is such a thing as anti-trust laws on the books.

  • Darksjeik #134 10 months ago

    I wouldn't be at all surprised if a Microsoft-Sony merger would be to counter a google or apple console release. Maybe MS and Sony know something we don't.

  • hiscore #135 10 months ago

    1. MS registering said domain name without consulting Sony is unlikely
    2. MS and Sony ran out of ideas for future gen and are reading YOUR reactions at this moment to get some genuine inspiration
    3. Nintendo is researching the next dimension to register the 'MICROSONDO 4D' (which, as a pre-order exclusive, can teleport you to Mars... via their online shop)

  • kangarootoo #136 10 months ago

    So going by the article update, prompted by the BF3 / MW website story? A "lets register URLs that pesky fans might use to create FUD, to prevent said mischief" approach?

  • Spekingur #137 10 months ago

    The One Console was forged in the fires of an active volcano...

  • chrisjm #138 10 months ago

    one console = monopoly.... it wouldnt be good for consumers.
    wii-u doesnt really count as its a generation behind