| Chark said: Understandable but it does portray a sense of unfriendliness between Xbox and 3rd parties. Granted they may not want to share info, the ability to ask shouldn't be so upsetting. It sounds as if there are enemies and is rather typical in corporations with poor communicative insight and high employee stress levels. |
The fact that other Xbox teams don't ask probably isn't a matter of unfriendliness, but basic decorum. It's just like Albert said; Microsoft is not only a partner, but also a competitor, and both sides know it. Both sides know that info on 3rd party games has to be kept confidential, so there's no point in asking. It's not like the 3rd parties would ever say yes, so the idea that Albert Penello or Phil Spencer or someone like that would even ask in the first place would be a problem. They know they have to keep their distance, and there's no reason to even hint that you might jeopardize the important relationship between 3rd-parties and the platform holder.
This may not be a perfect analogy, but I think it would be like a prosecutor asking the opposing defense attorney what their strategy is for winning the case. The prosecutor knows that there's no way in H-E-double hockey sticks that the defense attorney would ever give him that information, and is only going to make the defense upset that the prosecutor would think so little of him that he might give his secrets away. It would sour the relationship between the two, and any negotiations between the two parties later on could be strained.
