Sony on 3rd party exclusivity

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EdStation3 said:

Seece said:
Hypocrit, it's exactly the same, except Sony give the money before hand rather than after.

Hypocrites?  Microsoft does it insanely.  The best innovation since they enter video games was how to bribe and take from other companies.  Look at all the Playstation associated franchises they took.  GTA, DMC, Tekken.  They can't survive without bribing the competition.  They just entered the industry to say "Oh no, you can't make extra DLC for anyone else besides us"  Console war should be about companies and how they compete to make the best games and machines.  Not about just showing up out of nowhere with a big of money and saying "Put it on our console too and on top of that give us extra content"  That's B.S. in my opinion.  Microsoft showed up out of nowhere and paid off Rare to break their association with Nintendo and switch sides. 

You do know that Sony paid off Rockstar for GTA timed exclusivity on the PS2 right? They were doing this before MS was even in the console gaming business with major IPs. How can MS be pioneers? lol. Also Grand Theft Auto 1 got their start on the PC, not the Playstation. I suppose Square are "traitors" for going from Nintendo to Playstation with Final Fantasy too right?

The way I see it, people who criticize Microsoft for doing the same sort of things Sony did in the past are either irrationally anti-Microsoft or they are Playstation and/or Nintendo fanboys or they got RRoD and feel like they have to rage against MS for that. (oh and japanophiles are another prominent anti-MS group. How did I forget about that? Railing against Microsoft because they wouldn't be caught dead buying an American console. It would hurt their e-cred with their snobby japanophile friends on the internets) It's completely irrational to criticize Microsoft for doing the same sort of things that Sony freakin pioneered in the gaming business.