J_Allard said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
J_Allard said:
Why not? Spending money worked wonders for Sony in the 5th and 6th generations, and MS in the 6th and 7th generation.
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Sony spent money on GTA to be a timed exclusive. Eventually it went to Microsoft. Microsoft spent the first three years of the seventh gen keeping legions of games away from Sony. It was so bad it made Sony look like they had no games. When I had a 360 we used to make fun of my friends who had PS3's without games. Of course in 2006 I didn't know about moneyhatting at the time and I wasn't into marketing at the tiime. Sony didn't need to spend a dime to keep games away from Nintendo. Look up the history of Sony. Sony had advantages in the 5th generation because of format gave third parties more space to use and they had better third party relatioships. Not only that, third parties can take risk on being exclusively on your cut of the markshare because you command the mass majority of the people. This is the same reason Nintendo doesnt need to pay every third party for being exclusive on the DS. Sega botched the launch of the Sega Saturn and turned third parties off making them jump ship to Sony during the fifth generation. By the time the sixth generation happened Sony had amassed so many partnerships all they had to do was lay back. Microsoft is no different. Microsoft made moneyhatting a huge thing during the seventh generation and Sony knew they couldn't fight back against that. The only major moneyhat Sony is known for against Microsoft was paying Rockstar fifty million dollars to keep the GTA away from Microsoft until the trilogy was finished. Even I said that was fucked up but what Microsoft did soon after was horrible.
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That's a nice long post (exceot the part about your friends being idiots) but doesn't really change or disprove anything I said. Sony broke into the industry thanks to outspending Nintendo, be it with less royalty fees for 3rd parties, securing exclusive content, or by losing tons of cash on hardware. They continued all of these tactics into the PS2 era. In that same generation MS invested tons of money into Live and also ate losses on hardware. And in this last gen they again invested tons into XBL, ate losses on hardware, and even stole a page from Sony's playbook and paid for exclusive content. Of course, Sony lost tons of money on hardware last gen too, so they are very much still in the business of spending money to make money.
Difference is while you will try to explain away and make every excuse you can to make Sony engaging in these acts not only acceptable but at times downright inspiring while at the same time trying to portray MS doing it as just 'murican greed, I accept that they both do it and don't really give a crap.
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I never said my friends were idiots. You're truly and underhanded individual. If this is the level you need to stoop to then truly you are sad. They are not here to defend themselves against the likes of you so how dare you judge people you don't even know.
