| HesAPooka said: While this is just a rumor it should come as no surprise as they paid spike to not air Sony's E3 last year. Actions like these pretty much confirm that Microsoft knows that Sony has the upper hand and they are scared.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Paying-Third-Party-Publishers-to-Not-Show-PS4-Games-at-E3-2013-Report-359264.shtml |
Kind of like when Sony use to pay secret shoppers to go into game stores and ask about Sega systems. If the sales person tried to steer the secret shopper to a PlayStation instead, they could win something. While no one knew who the secret shopper were, the fact that Sony was doing it was well known to the point that sales people in game stores would talk trash about the Sega systems to anyone who asked. I had a friend that was the store manager of a local Electronic Boutique that confirmed this with me. There was rumors of big vacation packages being part of the gifts given out.
Or like when Sony paid Funcoland a bunch of money to put huge promotional displays for the PS2 at their entrances during the launch of the Dreamcast. Thing is, the PS2 was still a full year off, wasn't fully finalized at that time and they didn't even have the price set on it yet.
This is just business as usual.
Stop hating and start playing.
