Microsoft respond to the EDGE article

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richardhutnik said:

riecsou said:
One thing for sure MS tried to get Sony out of the gaming war with the Xbox 360 and their money. Buying exclusives, releasing the Xbox 360 while Sony was still not ready for the next gen. Selling the 360 cheaper each time Sony would do a price cut (until the Slim came out). If not for the slim (specially for the PS3 Slim) and for system sellers such as (God of war, Uncharted, Gran Turismo, Metal Gear, The last of US) , MS would have crush Sony.
That is why this coming GEN Sony didn't leave much to chance and Microsoft got comfortable because currently they own US big time.
And this is just my opinion, I believe that Sony was planning on doing the DRM thing and online stuff too cause there is no way Microsoft was crazy enough to be the only one to do that. And when Sony saw the reaction of the gamers, they made themselves look like the savior of gaming...

Companies get lucky.  I believe Sony got lucky.  They were likely going to do the DRM thing as you said and also very likely were going 4GB GDDR5.   They then see the writing on the wall, and do 8GB GDDR5, and throws Microsoft off.  After this, Microsoft walks into the DRM trap and tips off Sony, so Sony backs off and Microsoft takes the hit.  Sony also was likely going $500 with the camera, but sees the camera is an issue, so they drop the camera and drop it $100.  Microsoft got stuck.

In short, Microsoft handed Sony all the advantages and is trying to win the perception war with these replies.  They replies consists of "wait and see", "you don't understand", and other floated rumors like the second GPU.  And just like Nintendo is hinged upon the second screen with the Wii U being a MUST HAVE feature, Microsoft is now having to push Kinect 2.0 and the cloud (with always on off the table, cloud really isn't even there).  If this were a political campaign, Microsoft got Karl Roved and had all their strengths of the ONE turned against it, saying online isn't needed AND Kinect doesn't need to be on.  

...or Sony didn't change a thing about their model outside of PSN+ and the developer friendliness and watched Microsoft go down in flames in May.