I still don't see how Sony is making an attempt to control the gaming industry, all I see is Sony is trying to bring out games to rival its competitors, while Microsoft try to pressure some gaming companies into giving up their right and let Microsoft take over.
The only good games that's keeping Microsoft alive are probably the Halo series and Ninja Gaiden. Maybe some more that I have not heard of yet, but that's pathetic compared to Sony and Nintendo, having a huge library of games that turned gold and silver present and past.
I don't think Ninja Gaiden even make the top ten in best-selling games. Maybe MechAssault, Project Gotham Racing 1+2, Splinter Cell 1+2, and more. Though I don't care for MechAssault or Splinter Cell because they aren't my types. I prefer adventure-exploring games, which is easily found on Nintendo Gamecube. But I often play on Xbox against my friends over the internet.
That's true that people are often brainwashed because they want quality and they want what's best for them and that's what's ruining the market today. It's hard to find which companies that sell quality as well as reasonable prices but like you said, people are brainwashed. But that doesn't mean Sony is trying to monopolizing the market.
Sony came out with the bulky walkman and downsized it to a very small Walkman. Will you still say Sony is trying to monopolizing the market?
I recall many bad experiences that I have heard of from my hearing friends, even to this day about walkmans not lasting long enough. Somehow, it always get broken with a few months. It's either not built to last or just get mishandled.
So, if there are some truth to that Sony does build some of their products to last to a certain point. Then yes, it is monopolizing because they expect their customers to replace their walkman with new ones.
Sony is a company with a lot of innovations.
A lot of innovations? At times, yes... but they often end up screwing it up. Like the BETA video players, memory sticks, etc. Nobody but Sony use these memory sticks on their products. People are already pissed off at Sony over the MiniDisc players according to several reports a couple months ago.
Microsoft, on the other hand, don't have a lot of room for innovation, except for the first working operating system.
MS-DOS... wasn't even theirs to begin with. They bought it from a guy who made it in his basement. Xerox was the "inspiration" for Windows 3.1.... by stealing the Mac OS from Steve Jobs.
They only have room for more and more companies that they will buy off in the next few years because they can't afford to have someone be one up above them. They want to be the KING of the world.
Well, nothing's wrong with wanting to be the king of the world. But yes, I can see how many people end up getting hurt. But nobody said being in the market wouldn't hurt. It's like a battlefield out there.
Well BETA was stupid to start with. I didn't like BETA and if they were trying to lock out the format so no one will be able to make a BETA video player, that's a good sign of monopoly.
Actually, BETA was better than VHS. But what choice did they have since they weren't allowed to make their own BETA video players?
I was skeptical when I bought the Jaguar 64, my intuition was telling me NO NO NO NO but I bought it anyways.
Thankfully, I didn't buy that one. I had the same intuitions as you did.
The Dreamcast came out, my intuition was saying the same thing, I didn't buy it but my roommate did. a year or two years later, the DC failed.
I bought Dreamcast in an used condition at a cheap price a year after it was released. I was able to find many games being sold at a cheap price. It was worth my money, at least in my opinion because I got to have a lot of fun with Dreamcast even though I knew it wasn't going to last.
Now Microsoft XBox came out, my intuition told me the same thing so that's why I'm still wary of the XBox. If you disagree with that, that's fine with me, just let me be with my intuition.
So far, Microsoft is happy where it is now. In fact, Microsoft did manage to sell more consoles than Sony several times in the past few months. It was very obvious that Microsoft lost a lot of money on purpose to prepare for the coming Xbox Next.
Clearly, and it is working.
Yes but did Nintendo make an official comment saying that they will not make gaming consoles?
Official? It was a comment made when Bill Gates was asked the question. More of a blunt response, I'll say. It's not like they made a press release stating that they won't make games. Actually, they already were making games for the PC at the time, but not consoles. I believe the question was really in relation to developing a console, not games.
No. They are a game company, making playing cards and such. It was expected that they would come out with something like the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES. It wasn't expected that MS would come out with the XBox because it's an operating system to start with and with what Bill Gates said, he mocked the gaming industry, yet he's in the gaming industry today?
Sony wasn't a game company either. So?
What other games should I get other than Ninja Gaiden that proves itself worthy for the Xbox?
I can't answer that question, because I don't know what you like to play. Everybody has different needs. For example, if you want to play more RPG games... don't buy a Xbox. PS2 would be the better choice, but if you want first-person shooter games, then Xbox would be a good choice because there are a lot of these games. I don't play sports either, but there are still a large variety of different games. Maybe you're just looking in the wrong place. But like I said, people has different needs.
That's also true that every console has it advantages and disadvantages and I found the XBox to be at a huge disadvantage for me. Lack of better game library, bulky console, sucky graphics and more.
I think all 3 consoles are kinda bulky to begin with. Gamecube is the one with the weakest third-party support, I have to say while PS2 having the strongest support. Xbox has a very solid third-party support, that I don't doubt. But on all 3 consoles, most third-party games are crap, just like most movies are crap. There are a few gems, there'll never be a lot of gems, just a few.
I thought the Nintendo 64 sucked as well because they were using the wrong color palette. They could have used the one for the SNES.
I was disappointed with Nintendo 64 too as well, but I still kept it because of a few games that are still worth playing to this day. Though, the controller... ugh.
. Seriously, I don't want to say this again and again, but what other games will grab my interest in the XBox? That's how bad Xbox is to the general public because how many friends do I have right now that have a XBox? I would say maybe 1 out of 30 friends... Every time I talk to a friend for their opinion about the XBox (these who don't have one), they would say, "Oh boy they suck! The controller is too fat and I can't hold on to them, the XBox crashed on me when I played it at the local Electronic Boutique store, What games will I want to play? they got lame 'gay' games so I don't want to play them". The sad part is, you know that friend I said, 1 out of 30 people that I know, you know why he bought the XBox? He bought it because it can play DVD movies and have a hard drive. I asked him if he know what's the hard drive is for and he thought he can save files from the computer on the XBox like access DB files, spreadsheets, word documents etc. I told him no, that's for when you play a game online and it need a place to put the files on for faster loading time and he was like oh damn! then he don't want it. He only have 2 games for the XBox. One of them is Dead or Alive Volleyball and I asked him how often he play it, he said one time a month. He said he only use it to watch movies. Now he regrets buying the XBox and wish he got the PS2 instead cuz he saw a lot of games he know he will play and he didn't know the PS2 can run DVD movies. He's somewhat game illiterate so I had to educate him on the difference bewteen the XBox and the PS2 as well as the GCN. 
(beside Xenogears/Xenosaga games, that is).