S.T.A.G.E. said:
platformmaster918 said:
wick said:
This.
Microsofts original policies were so bad they made Sony look amazing at E3 just by doing what they've always done with used games and no internet check ins.
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Sony also played it extremely well by dodging the question up till that point and making everyone think they were going to implement something similar. This E3 is the most lobsided affair I've seen in gaming and they only had to show 1 of their games from the Worldwide Studios. That means they saved game reveals for a later date (Gamescom and TGS) while also winning E3. It's a genius PR stunt that really paid off.
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Sony dodged no questions. Yoshida has been answering questions about the PS4 since february. People were speculating because the Xbone was rumored since about that time to be always online and trying to use DRM. Then that "microsoft employee" opened his mouth and said basically "who gives a crap if its always online" and the internet went nuts. All Sony did was understand their consumerbase. Thats not really that hard. Microsoft ignored their userbase and went to create a lockdown internet dependent console that the majority of their consumerbase was just not ready for and the policies only got worse from there. What Sony did didnt take a rocket scientist. Push the changes, just wait until the time is right. This was obviously not the time.
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I wasn't insulting Sony or saying they were planning on any of these policies. I think maybe they didn't come out with any statements beforehand (or at least weren't quite so clear or emphatic about it) before E3 because they wanted that moment. MS had to show A TON at E3 to try to drown out the always on backlash and it STILL didn't work. Those games they showed should have stolen the show. Instead Sony beat them on policy and multiplat footage. We know Sony has more first party games in the first year (20 vs. 15) so they've obivously played this masterfully. They knew they would win E3 on policy and price. Now MS blew their load and can't match their Gamescom announcements. They needed a lot of help from MS but they're set up beatifully to take Gamescom with so many games left and they still won E3. It's a nightmare and that E3 will resonate for years just like the 2006 one.
