Sony Bashes Microsoft's "Check Writing" Policy Again

[aaronmcc]

Sony Bashes Microsoft's "Check Writing" Policy Again

Sony's PR strategy in the console war seems to be to point out that Microsoft is a devilish, top hat-wearing fat cat lording over the population with its giant dollar-sign labeled sacks of cash.

Dyer admits that Sony won't "compete with Microsoft on that front," but says that regardless the PlayStation 3 is growing at such a rate that it will definitely overtake the Xbox 360 sometime in the future. "Our global business is bigger than 360's and will continue to get bigger than 360, and people are seeing that. We passed them in Europe and they don't even exist in Japan, and we're going to catch them and pass them here in the U.S. as well," he predicts.

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If you are not already bigger than 360 you cannot continue to get bigger. You can continue to increase sales to match...then get bigger. Don't get me wrong I want a PS3 but some people need to do it a favour and shut the hell up cuz they are talking shit. No one really gives a fuck about Madden outside the states and Guitar hero is dying. Try talking about the good shit on PS3 like Heavy Rain or GOW3. Wow, I have swore a lot through this. Sorry mum!

 

[Pingieking]

"They have very few first-party studios at Microsoft," he says. "Bungie's next Halo is the last one, Rare rarely puts out anything, you've got Peter Molyneux with his Fable stuff... but they don't have first-party development studios inside at Redmond or anywhere for that matter. We do. So rather than putting their money behind that, they've been going to Epic or Valve or BioWare to do what they did with Mass Effect, and that's where they throw their dollars."

Sounds more like pointing out the obvious rather than bashing MS. Not that it really makes any difference.

 

[Rayjay06]

"I'm not sure about the validity of bashing Microsoft for paying for its exclusives, because that basically seems like the same thing as paying to run a studio to make a game in-house, but the money is simply exchanged in a different way."

Exactly what I was going to say! Wow, ninja'd by the article lol. Anyways, underneath all the whining is "My name is PS3 and I have Mass Effect-envy." ... "Hi PS3!"

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I agree that the Blu Ray drive is Sony's biggest advantage. How many more multiple disk games like FFXIII will consumers (and mainly developers) put up with?

 

[Quadtrix]

Sony: Pfft, we won't buy exclusives or make in-house games.

Microsoft: K, we will. Enjoy having less games.

Sony: Look everyone, Microsoft is buying exclusives! Yaaa, booo, hiss etc.


Anyone else find that Nintendo versus SEGA was a lot more sensible and less immature than Sony versus Microsoft?

I don't think Sega was much better in the maturity department.

 

[Pingieking]

I agree that the Blu Ray drive is Sony's biggest advantage. How many more multiple disk games like FFXIII will consumers (and mainly developers) put up with?

I think developers will care a lot more than consumers. I don't think a lot of people would be mad about switching a few disks over a few dozen hours of gaming. For publishers, this significantly increases the production costs. In the current economic environment, I don't imagine that publishers are very enthusiastic about throwing lots of money at 1~3 extra DVDs per game without being able to raise the price.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

"His Fable stuff"

But yeah, MS rarely does first party dev.

 

[capt.fodder]

I read the article and thought that he was getting at the whole "Microsoft is nothing but a company full of programmers and they don't even write their own games" irony thing...

 

[ItsAPaul]

Sounds alot like what Microsoft says about Macs, when all they really need to say is "come on". Of course microsoft says stupid things like pcs have more ram when macs don't need as much ram and such, which sony also seems to emulate.

 

[Katana314]

Sony should be kinda glad their studios are in-house...Valve has made it clear that being newly introduced to the Playstation 3 Devkit is like being given a physics quiz in an unknown tribal language.

 

[Rednog]

If I was Nintendo and I say this, I would totally make a press release as soon as I could and just stand there laughing my ass off as I held up the article. Seriously good job Sony, bash Microsoft for less first party exclusives when your other competitor can put you in the exact same spot.

 

[FloodOne]

I own both systems. Your biggest cock contest holds no bearing over me Sony and Microsoft.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

I believe it's only a matter of time until Sony take over Microsoft this generation for various reasons, but right now all they can do is bark like a bunch of animals.

To point out that a company is getting more games for it's console by paying for them is just asinine. There are very few titles that take advantage of the Blu-Ray's extra space, so why not just go to the platform that will make them more money before and after the game is released?

Sony: Pfft, we won't buy exclusives or make in-house games.

Microsoft: K, we will. Enjoy having less games.

Sony: Look everyone, Microsoft is buying exclusives! Yaaa, booo, hiss etc.


Anyone else find that Nintendo versus SEGA was a lot more sensible and less immature than Sony versus Microsoft?

Fuck no.


EDIT: And this part

Microsoft: K, we will. Enjoy having less games.

made me laugh quite a bit.

 

[Simalacrum]

"Microsoft is a devilish, top hat-wearing fat cat lording over the population"

Who told Sony PR about my avatar?

*Sony's special spy ID card falls out of Simalacrum's pocket*

...

>.>

<.<

*smoke bomb!*

Run awaaaaaaaaaaayyy!

ehem.

OT: just another sign of immaturity between the big 3. I swear the game developers play nice with one another... (Naughty Dog praising Epic Games' work and vice versa and whatnot), why can't the console developers do the same?

 

[RUINER ACTUAL]

Go to Best Buy, look at the laptops. What OS are the Sony PCs running? OH! Windows! lolololol! So I'm not sure why they're using that argument when MS can just say "well, you pay for your PC OS, you don't have an in-house OS." Don't get me wrong, I have a 360, and I think the PS3 is sweet (I just HATE the controller). I think a Sony PC OS would be cool though.

 

[Snotnarok]

and you also have the most difficult system to program for of ALL TIME. While your exclusives are absolutely incredible (love me some Ratchet and Clank), your cross platform titles have major problems like, framerate issues, color contrast issues. I raged when I got assassins creed for it and I saw the 360 version, there was color, the framerate was stable.

I hate to break it to you but the hardest all time would be the Atari Jaguar. Look it up if you don't remember it.

As for the cross-platform remark, it depends on which system the original coding was done. When a game is coded for the 360 and ported to the PS3, the PS3 version suffers.

So the Playstation and Playstation 2's hardcore reliance on the RPG market in general, fueled by an exclusivity contract with Square Enix that only recently expired...

Sony is a little hypocritical here, but Square is a bad example because Sony did invest a lot of money into Square, saving it from certain bankruptcy after the box office failure "FF: The Spirits Within". Square pretty much owed Sony at that point.

(From 2001) http://www.gamespot.com/news/2816880.html

I guess the best example is simply in the way that Sony deals with 1st party devs Vs. Microsoft's 3rd party devs. It's all very similar really.

I didn't mean older consoles, I meant the current gen.

And as I realize that it matters what it's developed on, I've still had issues with 4 games on the PS3. I love my PS3 and all but my point is Sony isn't perfect and they're stupid for calling Microsoft out on their imperfections. All 3 systems have issues.