Legend11 said:
PS3 had free online multiplayer for almost all of its games, so is that coming to PS4 next year as well? I think both companies are going to have many great exclusives but you can't really predict what Microsoft is going to do based on last generation because history doesn't always repeat itself. We have a very different situation this time around in which the console doesn't have a one year advantage, superior versions of many multiplats, etc. We have a Microsoft that will have to work hard for Xbox One sales and the only realistic way of making it a close race again is through aggressive price cuts and a very strong exclusive lineup. I have no idea how hungry they actually are to make that happen and I don't think many people outside of Microsoft know either. |
Sony adapted to the world without free online gaming in the west as Microsoft has manipulated it. Right or wrong I knew I had to give up complaining about it because Microsoft won that decsion and Sony made their decsions based on where people put their money. Microsoft adapted to the fact that they couldn't control PC gamers with paid online, but adapted to the fact that they could control them if they control the hub of community gaming, which is the Xbox. Sony learned that free wont get them anywhere in this competitive climate that Microsoft had ushered the gaming industry into from the PC realm. Footing the bill for online became the peoples problems rather than the third parties who make the game.
'I can predict Microsoft, because they are predictable. Sony is a company that you WE KNOW internally can handle itself, but we do not know what they will put out for better or worse. It doesn't matter if you're into their games or not. Microsoft has proven time and time again and even media outlets have spoken out about their weak internal conceptual and development process that they've had since joining the console industry in 2000/2001. They will continue to be weak until they create companies who can build games on their own.
Sony evolves internally and continues to create. Their methods of survival during the PS3 era differed highly from the PS2 era because they realized the third parties were not going to be enough to fend them off from Microsoft who was going to try to level the playing field. Microsoft tends to mostly buy out other peoples stuff, so that leads them to hinder internal growth. They can buy as many companies as they want, but either those companies put up or shut up and in fifteen good years of being in the industry (soon) they are still only as good as a less than a handful. This is why Microsoft paid Double Helix to handle Killer Instinct. This is why Microsoft pays Capcom for their Dead Rising game. This is why Microsoft pays to get the constant edge on Sony instead of doing it themselves. If they had the ability and creativity, their future would be less predictable than even Sony whom has put out numerous amounts of products for better or worse. I say its about time Sony started looking outward like MS like they are doing now and filling in gaps with third party as well.
Microsoft knows that the first impression is the best one, which is why you see such a massive amount of games being laid on the table from other people. Microsoft knows that people mostly by consoles for third parties, so they picked and chose from the third parties. Its Sony who has to adapt to Microsoft and everytime they do they get stronger as a creative entity. All Microsoft had to do to Sony from the start was take third party exclusivity from them to level the playing field for the 360's generation.
