Insider: Xbox 720 development is "pretty much Fight Club"

[D-Joe]

Chark said:

Dodece said:
@JEMC

Just to clarify what I was saying. I genuinely think that Microsoft is running a misinformation campaign. Rather then leaking information. Basically they are running a smear campaign in advance. They are perpetuating a story that has Sony releasing a incredibly powerful console this year, and they don't necessarily need to know the details about the machine to know what is financially doable by Sony, and what is most certainly not.

In doing this they have gotten a legion of Sony fans excited about a machine that Sony cannot deliver onto the market. Read these forums, and you can see just how many here believe these rumors without any reservation, and when this god like machine does a no show. Who do you think is going to take the blame. They are going to feel betrayed and blame Sony. Even though Sony never made a single promise about the capabilities of their hardware.

Meanwhile these rumors have converted many a Sony fan into disciples of the pure glory of raw power. This could in the end have another consequence. Microsoft may be converting Sony fans without their even knowing. Sony fans could very well end up arguing in favor of hardware that they thought was Sony's, but was in fact Microsoft's the whole time. Placing them square in the middle of a catch 22. They don't want to change brands, but they could have just spent months arguing that higher raw power is the most important thing.

Microsoft is the brand of raw power. Hell this previous generation they built a console that was so over powered that it literally ripped itself apart. Yet we now have rumors about a Sony console that is aspiring to be that. Something doesn't smell right about this at all.

So Microsoft is lying about how powerful their machine is in order to court PS fans into getting too excited over PS4's power in a bet that Sony won't be able to make a powerful machine so Microsoft can actually release a powerful machine in order to attract those PS fans therefore not actually lying in the first place?

Sounds like a crazy plan