Not really giving the middle finger, but look at this

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/04/xbox-one-same-day-launch-clause-nudged-nuclear-throne-to-ps4/?a_dgi=aolshare_twitter

Indie developers in the Xbox One publishing program, ID@Xbox, get two console development kits, a Unity license and the opportunity to self-publish their games – in return, Microsoft asks that the games launch same-day on Xbox One and other console platforms. Launch parity, rather than exclusivity.

Building a game for multiple launch platforms can be hazardous for indie developers, transferring energy from building games to bureaucracy, Vlambeer co-founder Rami Ismail tells Joystiq. When Vlambeer learned about Microsoft's launch parity clause, it immediately contacted Sony to set up launch exclusivity on PS4 for its next-gen game Nuclear Throne.

"Microsoft was doing reach-out to certain developers back in the early days of ID@XBOX, and we discussed potentially bringing Nuclear Throne to Xbox One with them," Ismail says. "There had been mentions beforehand that there was a launch parity clause in the contract, with the exception of games that were already signed to another platform during the announcement of their self-publishing program. Thus, before we signed with Microsoft, we e-mailed Sony that we quickly wanted to sign Nuclear Throne with them with a month of exclusivity."

This move wasn't out of spite for Microsoft, Ismail says, and Nuclear Throne is slated for both PS4 and Xbox One – it'll just hit PS4 first.

"Honestly, we've had enough trouble with our promise for a simultaneous release for Luftrausers, so by getting rid of parity we'd be able to focus on one platform for Nuclear Throne first. We also liked that we got to honor our long and super-pleasant cooperation with the people at Sony that way."

Developers are finding looholes

Good for Xbox One owners, bad for gamers and the industry.

no matter what MS did-It's always good work for kowenicki.No matter what they do they simply can do no wrong for him.Haven't seen one single critical comment from him about ms in this year,and this year was full of strange decisions made by MS.

The 360 is dead as far as these things go. Compare ID@XBOX to what Nintendo and Sony are doing. Indies have very good alternatives. I'm not in the XBOX program so I can't say if this policy even bad, but if it is devs will go to the other two.

Sounds like this is very open to exploitation - just patch the PS4 version up to 1080p (assuming that "parity" includes graphics) and there you go - PS4 owners get their yummy visuals, MS misguidedly think they're actually negating Sony's power advantage - everyone wins

You mean, "alternative", if you're coming from a japanese dev!

Why are you posting? ... Really - why?

I hate imbecile comments in a thread with a "Let's try and piss on Xbox once again" title.

Remember when I brought this up and people were brushing it off?  Now Microsoft admits it.  

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=172312&page=

But it doesn't effect your experience at all, just makes it worst for everyone else... 

Thank goodness for day one patches.

Sorry if that's how it came across, I just feel that it's a sign that MS are feeling desperate to try and reverse whatever advantage Sony has - having been beaten on the pure strength of the hardware, they've had to adopt new strategies, some of which I would argue are a little underhanded.

That said, though I may not like it, I can understand why MS might do this, though I would rather they did it the old fashioned way and tried to sell consoles by making lots of great games - I own a 360, I'm not at all set against buying a Bone, but whether or not I do will depend on the strength of the exclusives it gets

Surely we all would benefit as gamers if that were the case