tuscaniman said:
I may be mistaken but this is exactly what Sony did to get into the industry when facing Nintendo. History repeats itself once again. Do some research on Sony's past before making comments about Microsoft. |
Nah, I had a Saturn when Sony rolled into the game, the only thing I remember was the PS1 being a superior platform (sales) from about the release of FF7 and things snowballed from there. Also it was Nintendos lack of foresight in where the industry was going and its inability to change (albeit now rectified, amongst casual$ at least). Sony this time around has a viable platform which is at least equal to if not greater than the 360 but keeps loosing out on DLC simply through exclusive rights' money.
I could be wrong but I can't remember any exclusive 1,6 or 12months rights back then.
It's just business I suppose but as I said before it's detrimental to the industry since PS3 gamers miss out and microsoft loose, waste money which could be invested in future IP's or R&D on something just for the purposes of one-upmanship. I blame microsoft for this and it's snowballed into problem (for me) from E3 2007 (GTA4), because now I see companies holding content back (Tomb raider U & RE5 come to mind) to make extra cash for content that should have been on the disk from the start.
I'm not trying to say Sony is innocent or some kind of perfect company but rather that since microsoft joined the game its been a quasi business for all parties.
