| S.T.A.G.E. said:
1.Saw Sony was creating the ultimate home console and wanted in 2. copied Sonys ten year plan . 3. 2nd Console design reminiscent of the PS2 (especially in black) 4. Followed Sony's lead with the DVD format and thinks Sony will do it again but implements Blu Ray...Microsoft says "****! lets help out HD DVD". 5. Rushed the quality of their majority of their sold consoles to take a page out of Sonys book and endear themselves to third parties before Sony could introduce their dev kits. 6. Take great pride in collecting 3rd party titles synonymous with Sony and painting it as a victory and not shining light over great titles like the Witcher 2 which dont get enough press to the masses. Take last year for instance, they put Insomniacs new game up as if it was exclusive and had zero gameplay footage. Microsoft has always known Sony is synonymous with quality where games are concerned, and in order to be that way they must align themselves with those companies. The only difference is a lot of the third party titles they are now getting never rose to prominance with them outside of Gears. Should I go on? |
Perhaps you could start before you went on? Of those things I would say exactly none of them are MS following Sony's lead. I mean some of those points are just weird. Copied Sony's 10 year plan........ wha? You mean a company wanted a product that requires a high investment and complimentary purchases wanted it to have a long lifespan?! Not exactly Sony's thing there. Followed Sony's lead with dvds.... you mean Microsoft used the cheapest and most sensible disc based option? What was the alternative? Invest money into a unique format like the Gamecube's mini-discs? The other points I don't even understand, I literally have no idea what point 6 is meant to say.... they have games?
So far I think you have done a good job of proving: If you cherry pick you can prove anything! I mean your point is basically that if you take away one of THE BIGGEST areas for this generation of gaming, where MS lead the way and Sony followed, then MS always copy Sony. I think most people would agree that this generation is effectively the online generation. Sony most definitely copied a HUGE amount of things from MS in that regard.
The weird thing is you even said in your original post that Sony follows Nintendo. Then decided that MS follows Sony.... why? Surely they would be following Nintendo.
I mean if we wanted to use your logic we could actually say Sony follow MS. Nearly entire online infrastructure, focus on bringing out the most powerful console etc.
