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Intrinsic on 28 May 2014
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theprof00 said:
CDiablo said:

Im cheekishly joking. MS could pay for development for both PS and XB development, pay for hotel and airfaire and the internet would be up in arms. Sony does anything at all "Good Guy Sony." Tis the way of the internet.

It's because history has conditioned us to respond this way. So far as I know, Sony doesn't engage in anti-competitive behavior regarding playstation. I don't think I've ever heard of a dev say that Sony disallows a third party anything. I've never heard of any restrictions, strong-arming, etc.

I've heard them butchering a goat....I've heard RIIIIIIDDDGE RACER, I've heard of bombing software...but I don't think there's ever been a time where a dev has come forward and bad-mouth Sony.

Now, as far as MS....

Exactly, sony never strong armed any developers. The worst they did was in the time of the PS1 with their aggressive marketing and moneyhatting devs, but that was just to get them to also make PS versions of games and never to buy out games. Sony actually have a policy where they dont pay for 3rd party exclusives. For MS, rather than spend money on their own exclusives they go around buying DLC or timed exclusisvity. Or having release clauses. I dunno, I know no company is clean, but MS seems all kinds of dirty.